Writing the Breakout Novel

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Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald Maass

Take your fiction to the next level!
Maybe you're a first-time novelist looking for practical guidance. Maybe you've already been published, but your latest effort is stuck in mid-list limbo. Whatever the case may be, author and literary agent Donald Maass can show you how to take your prose to the next level and write a breakout novel - one that rises out of obscurity and hits the best-seller lists.
Maass details the elements that all breakout novels share - regardless of genre - then shows you writing techniques that can make your own books stand out and succeed in a crowded marketplace.
You'll learn to:

• establish a powerful and sweeping sense of time and place
• weave subplots into the main action for a complex, engrossing story
• create larger-than-life characters that step right off the page
• explore universal themes that will interest a broad audience of readers
• sustain a high degree of narrative tension from start to finish
• develop an inspired premise that sets your novel apart from the competition

Then, using examples from the recent works of several best-selling authors - including novelist Anne Perry - Maass illustrates methods for upping the ante in every aspect of your novel writing. You'll capture the eye of an agent, generate publisher interest and lay the foundation for a promising career. (From Amazon.com product listing.)

NaNoWriMo 2016 is here!

Ever dream of writing a novel? Do you have ideas and characters running around in your head, and you'd love to actually put them into a book?

National Novel Writing Month is here! Well, prep time is here. NaNoWriMo is actually the entire month of November, but if writing a novel is on your bucket list, do it this year!

Come join me (You can hook up with me as a writing buddy on the NaNo website, find me as JennBradshaw) on NaNoWriMo for peptalks, cheering and progress reports as the month goes along. You can also find me in Second Life, where I've partnered with another author buddy for virtual write-ins with the group "NaNoWriMo Obsession". Come check us out if you happen to be in-world.

For more inspiration and progress updates as I warm up and get ready for NaNo, you can check out my other blog on creativity at Sage Wolfsong Creations. See ya then!