Writing The Breakout Novel Donald Maass Manual

Are you a first-time novelist looking for practical guidance to take your fiction to the next level? Or, maybe you've already been published and want to break out of mid-list limbo? With 'Writing The Breakout Novel - Donald Maass ', you can get the tools you need to succeed in a crowded marketplace. This manual is presented in an electronic format and includes detailed illustrations, step-by-step written instructions, and diagrams and pictures to help you along the way. It's an inexpensive way to keep your writing skills sharp and your novel engaging.

In this manual, Donald Maass details the elements that all breakout novels share, regardless of genre, and provides writing techniques to make your book stand out. You'll learn to establish a powerful and sweeping sense of time and place, weave subplots into the main action, create larger-than-life characters, explore universal themes, sustain a high degree of narrative tension, and develop an inspired premise. Maass also provides examples from the works of best-selling authors to illustrate methods for upping the ante in every aspect of your novel writing. With this manual, you can capture the eye of an agent, generate publisher interest, and lay the foundation for a promising career.