The Emotional Craft of Fiction: How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface

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 • your story's emotional world • moral stakes • connecting the inner and outer journeys • plot as emotional opportunities • invoking higher emotions, symbols, and emotional language • cascading change • story as emotional mirror • positive spirit and magnanimous writing • the hidden current that makes stories moveReaders can simply read a novel...or they can experience it.

The Emotional Craft of Fiction shows you how to make that happen.