Posts Tagged ‘Fire in Fiction’

Posted on September 17th, 2009 by by Beth Barany

Create a Page Turner

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’ [...]

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Posted on August 6th, 2009 by by Beth Barany

Inspire Your Novel Writing: 3 Questions to Ponder

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.

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Posted on July 30th, 2009 by by Beth Barany

Fire in Fiction: Novels are Intimate

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.

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