The Emotional Craft of Fiction: How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface -- Donald Maass, Paperback

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The Emotional Craft of Fiction: How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface -- Donald Maass, PaperbackThe essential guide to evoking emotional experiences in your readers Writers might disagree over showing versus telling or plotting versus pantsing, but none would argue this: If you want to write strong fiction, you must make your readers feel. Veteran literary agent and expert fiction instructor Donald Maass shows you how to use story to provoke a visceral and emotional experience in readers. You'll learn: emotional modes of writing beyond showing

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her powers have not yet awakened

His betrothed's unexpected skill with a sword having narrowly saved him from a gory fate at the gnashing jaws of the undead

all through the long day

inviting them to help map out the truth hidden within this puzzling architectural mystery

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But when he discovers the body of a mysterious woman floating in the waters of the Venetian Lagoon

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this historical murder mystery follows the cunning Irene Adler as she teams up with the mysterious Sherlock Holmes to discover who is murdering Oxford's elite students in the All Souls class

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from seeing the "Inner Light" in a vase of flowers to understanding the "divine source of all existence

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