Writing 21st Century Fiction: High Impact Techniques for Exceptional Storytelling by Donald Maass

Author:Donald Maass [Maass, Donald]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Self Help, Fiction Writing, Composition, Reference, Writing
ISBN: 9781599634043
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2012-09-17T23:00:00+00:00

21ST CENTURY TOOLS

PROTAGONISTS

Is your protagonist an Everyman or Everywoman? What’s his or her outstanding quality? Show it within their first five pages. Terrific. Now show it within one page.

Is your protagonist a hero or heroine, someone with a job that entails danger, big decisions, and high responsibility? Find one way (even a small one) in which he is perfectly human. Got it? Good. Show it on the page right away.

Is your protagonist dark, haunted, outcast, suffering, or non-human? In what way does this character most want to become more normal, human, or happy? Show that longing right away.

Whatever you came up with in the three exercises above, find three new places to reinforce that in the remainder of your manuscript.

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