Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook: Hands-On Help for Making Your Novel Stand Out and Succeed by Donald Maass

Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook: Hands-On Help for Making Your Novel Stand Out and Succeed by Donald Maass

Author:Donald Maass
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Language Arts & Disciplines, Publishing, Fiction, Literary Criticism, Composition & Creative Writing, Fiction - Authorship, Authorship, General
ISBN: 9781582972633
Publisher: Writer's Digest Books
Published: 2004-06-14T08:28:53+00:00


Step 2: Heighten it. Change the setting in some way. Make the action bigger. Magnify the dialogue. Make the inner change experienced by your point-of-view character as cataclysmic as an earthquake.

Step 3: Take the same moment, and underplay it. Make it quieter. Take away action. Remove dialogue. Make the transition small and internal, a tide just beginning to ebb.

Follow-up work: Go through your novel and find the turning points in twenty scenes. Find ways to heighten (or pointedly diminish) them.



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