Tag: donald
member name: Kenneth R. Besser
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August 31, 2007 11:19 AM EDT --
“Your opening scene was vivid,” The Donald wrote in his reply letter passing on my request that he represent my novel, Hollow Vengeance, “but that was not enough for me to keep turning . . .
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September 09, 2007 05:00 PM EDT --
Every story is set in a time and place and fixing them strongly in the minds of readers is a large part of making your writing a breakout novel. In the fourth chapter of his book, Writing the . . .
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August 23, 2007 08:33 PM EDT --
I continue to enjoy reading books on how to write better.
In his book, Writing the Breakout Novel, and his seminars based thereon, uber agent Donald Maass somewhat dismisses the value of reviews by asking . . .
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September 04, 2007 01:00 PM EDT --
Donald Maass's twenty-page chapter on stakes in Writing the Breakout Novel can be distilled down to four affirmative words, make the reader care. In order to do that, unless your first draft is miraculously . . .
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September 06, 2007 06:50 AM EDT --
Our friend, The Donald, is a big stakes eater, if you pay any attention at all to the third chapter of his book, Writing the Breakout Novel. To quote Maass, who makes the same point he admits many . . .
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September 02, 2007 09:43 AM EDT --
Book reviews only work if they are sufficiently short and to the point. Great works, however, like Donald Maass's how-to manual, Writing the Breakout Novel, sometimes take a little longer. We will . . .
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