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Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook (Paperback)

by Donald Maass (Author)

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Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Writers Digest Books (Jun 14 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 158297263X
ISBN-13: 978-1582972633
Product Dimensions: 27.2 x 21.8 x 1.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 590 g

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This powerful book builds on the success of its predecessor - Writing the Breakout Novel - and takes readers to the next level: improving their work with practical, hands-on lessons and exercises. With patented techniques from his popular writing workshops, Donald Maass shows fiction writers exactly how to make their work stand out from the crowd. Readers will learn how to strengthen any novel-in-progress, with sections on: Building Plot Layers; Creating Inner Conflict; Strengthening Point of View and Voice; Discovering Larger Than Life Character Qualities; Developing the Psychology of Place; Every workbook exercise is followed by examples from real-life breakout novels. This is one of the most accessible novel-writing guides available today.

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Donald Maass as a leading literary agent, represents more than 100 fiction writers and sells more than 100 novels per year to top publishers in North America and overseas. He is the author of 14 pseudonymous novels and the books The Career Novelist and Writing the Breakout Novel.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Chuck the rest of my collection if I can keep this book, Jun 22 2004

By	Cassandra Ward (Madison Hts, MI USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

After attending one of Maass' BN workshops and diligently typing down all the questions he posed us, I preordered this book immediately.

This was everything I hoped it would be and more, even with the "heads-up" I'd gotten from the workshop. I've gone through the first section since receiving my copy and it's already made me rethink my heroes and all the impacts to the plot.

This is a definite keeper and I'll likely have to get another two copies for when I wear this one's spine to nothing.

If I could pass out more stars, this book would get fifteen.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Invaluable Tool, Sep 18 2009

By	Alexander Gluskin (Canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If you are writing a novel, whether it is your first one or your twentieth one, I highly recommend this workbook as a tool to improve your creation dramatically. It has opened my eyes on the ways the most successful authors keep the reader's attention page after page, create fascinating and memorable characters, and weave an intricate plot that is nevertheless rock-solid. The book is full of exercises that sound strange or ridiculous, but are indeed very useful. Even though I have not felt the need to follow some of them verbatim, just thinking about them has helped me to generate many useful ideas. The book is also full of excellent examples from successful novels illustrating each concept. I agree with the author that this book should be read after the earlier book by the same author: Writing the Breakout Novel.

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