This is a terrific book for the budding writer. Maass is a literary agent and has read many, many manuscripts in his career. So he knows what makes for a gripping story and what will put the reader to sleep. This book, using excerpts from many novels as examples, shows you how to develop meaningf...
I had read Donald Maass's previous book Writing the Breakout Novel and expected this to be more of the same. It took things in a new direction and to a new depth. In fact, the thrust of this is that the books that touch us do so by getting us to tap into something deep within us. It is the emotio...