Writing the breakout novel
(Book)
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Cincinnati, Ohio : Writer's Digest Books, c2001.
Physical Desc:
264 pages ; 24 cm.
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Take your fiction to the next level!
Maybe you're a first-time novelist looking for practical guidance. Maybe you've already been published, but your latest effort is stuck in mid-list limbo. Whatever the case may be, author and literary agent Donald Maass can show you how to take your prose to the next level and write a breakout novel - one that rises out of obscurity and hits the best-seller lists.
Maass details the elements that all breakout novels share - regardless of genre - then shows you writing techniques that can make your own books stand out and succeed in a crowded marketplace.
You'll learn to:
• establish a powerful and sweeping sense of time and place
• weave subplots into the main action for a complex, engrossing story
• create larger-than-life characters that step right off the page
• explore universal themes that will interest a broad audience of readers
• sustain a high degree of narrative tension from start to finish
• develop an inspired premise that sets your novel apart from the competition
Then, using examples from the recent works of several best-selling authors - including novelist Anne Perry - Maass illustrates methods for upping the ante in every aspect of your novel writing. You'll capture the eye of an agent, generate publisher interest and lay the foundation for a promising career.
Maybe you're a first-time novelist looking for practical guidance. Maybe you've already been published, but your latest effort is stuck in mid-list limbo. Whatever the case may be, author and literary agent Donald Maass can show you how to take your prose to the next level and write a breakout novel - one that rises out of obscurity and hits the best-seller lists.
Maass details the elements that all breakout novels share - regardless of genre - then shows you writing techniques that can make your own books stand out and succeed in a crowded marketplace.
You'll learn to:
• establish a powerful and sweeping sense of time and place
• weave subplots into the main action for a complex, engrossing story
• create larger-than-life characters that step right off the page
• explore universal themes that will interest a broad audience of readers
• sustain a high degree of narrative tension from start to finish
• develop an inspired premise that sets your novel apart from the competition
Then, using examples from the recent works of several best-selling authors - including novelist Anne Perry - Maass illustrates methods for upping the ante in every aspect of your novel writing. You'll capture the eye of an agent, generate publisher interest and lay the foundation for a promising career.
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Book
Edition:
1st ed.
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English
ISBN:
0898799953 (alk. paper) :, 158297182X (pbk.) :
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Includes index.
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APA Citation (style guide)
Maass, D. (2001). Writing the breakout novel. Cincinnati, Ohio, Writer's Digest Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Maass, Donald. 2001. Writing the Breakout Novel. Cincinnati, Ohio, Writer's Digest Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Maass, Donald, Writing the Breakout Novel. Cincinnati, Ohio, Writer's Digest Books, 2001.
MLA Citation (style guide)Maass, Donald. Writing the Breakout Novel. Cincinnati, Ohio, Writer's Digest Books, 2001.
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