Posts Tagged ‘donald maass’

You want to create a page turner. You want your readers up late at night, reading. You want them to say to their significant other when called to bed, “Just one more page!”
How do you do that?
Literary agent and writing instructor extraordinaire, Donald Maass, tells us in his latest book, The Fire in Fiction.

“Holding readers’ [...]

One of the things that I love about fiction is that distinct voice an author has.
It may be an in-your-face humor like Rick Riordan’s in his Percy Jackson & The Olympians series, or a deep love of place and characters like Ellen Kushner’s Swordspoint, or of courageous desperation in Toni McGee Causey’s Charmed and Dangerous.
These [...]

This week the book is still The Fire in Fiction by Donald Maass. And this week it’s about voice.

Welcome back to Excerpt Thursday, where I quote from a book I’m reading. Currently, I’m still savoring Donald Maass’ Fire in Fiction.

Writers, what are you reading that inspires you? What are you reading that inspires your writing? I’m still reading The Fire in Fiction by Donald Maass. And today is Excerpt Thursday, so here goes.

We’re once again at Except Thursday. I just decided that today I would excerpt again from Donald Maass’ The Fire In Fiction, the book I’m currently reading. Why? I’m inspired by Maass’ book. Reading it makes me want to work on my novel. I hope it can inspire you too to work on your novel.

“I believe that passion is available to every author, every time she sits down to write. Every novel can be inspired. Every scene can have a white-hot center. It is not a matter of conjuring demons, being obsessed, or just plain luck. The passion that inspires great fiction can be a writing technique as handy and easy to use as those with which all fiction writers are familiar.”