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Title: Emotional Craft of Fiction: How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface
Author: MAASS DONALD
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 27/01/2017
Imprint: WRITER’S DIGEST
Price: $40.00
Publishing status: Active
This intriguing new book from literary agent Donald Maass examines the use of emotions in
fiction, examining not only how to write with emotion, and imbue characters with realistic
emotions, but also from the point of view of reader engagement–the core principles of how
developing an emotional connection with readers ensures their commitment to the work in
question.
Engage Your Readers with Emotion.
While writers might disagree over showing versus telling or plotting versus pantsing, none would
argue this: If you want to write strong fiction, you must make your readers feel. The reader’s
experience must be an emotional journey of its own, one as involving as your characters’
struggles, discoveries, and triumphs are for you.
That’s where The Emotional Craft of Fiction comes in. Veteran literary agent and expert fiction
instructor Donald Maass shows you how to use story to provoke a visceral and emotional
experience in readers. Topics covered include:
• emotional modes of writing
• beyond showing versus telling
• your story’s emotional world
• moral stakes
• connecting the inner and outer journeys
• plot as emotional opportunities
• invoking higher emotions, symbols, and emotional language
• cascading change
• story as emotional mirror
ISBN: 9781440348372