Writing the Breakout Novel: Insider Advice for Taking Your Fiction to the Next Level
by:
Donald Maass (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780898799958 (0898799953)
Publish date: January 1st 2001
Publisher: Writers Digest Books
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Series: Breakout Novel
I read the blog of an editor who once offered this rule of thumb: Pay attention to who is offering advice on writing. They should either be an author you admire or someone who has gained best-selling status or someone who is or has been a gatekeeper--an acquiring editor or agent. In that regard, he ...
This one is going to stay on the "currently reading" shelf for a while, because it's just too "big" to rush through. So far, I'm seriously impressed, and I wish I'd gotten a hold of this book a long time ago. A lot of craft stuff is now making total sense to me.