The Emotional Craft of Fiction
How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface
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Narrated by:
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Timothy Andrés Pabon
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Written by:
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Donald Maass
About this listen
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
● Connecting the inner and outer journeys and much more
Readers can simply read a novel...or they can experience it. The Emotional Craft of Fiction shows you how to make that happen.
©2016 Donald Maass (P)2020 TantorWhat listeners say about The Emotional Craft of Fiction
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- Luke Dondo
- 2023-06-20
Fantastic. Unbelievable.
Game-changer. The reason why this audiobook doesn’t have more 5-star reviews is because its material forces writers to put pause to what they’ve learned and have heard touted again and again all over social media from various hacks whose qualifications are strictly having studied the very recycled information which they tout and is doomed to be recycled again.
Bought a physical copy upon completion and was able to put these lessons to immediate work in a WIP.
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- EllyD
- 2021-10-24
Book for writers
I found it too repetitive so it becomes boring and I decided to stop and delete.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Jae
- 2023-04-08
Not what I was looking for
I expected a book on writing craft that I could apply to novels. This is more of an exploration of fiction with some dogmatic views about storytelling sprinkled in. The author presents his personal preferences as “the right way” without reason or explanation. The pace is also slow and meandering. I found myself extremely bored and didn’t get much value from this one.
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