Donald Maass

Donald Maass heads the Donald Maass Literary Agency and is the author of several books, including Writing the Breakout Novel, Writing 21st Century Fiction, and The Emotional Craft of Fiction. Learn more at maassagency.com.

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How To Make Your Setting a Character

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How to Improve Writing Skills

Career Patterns That Work

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How to Improve Writing Skills

Q&A With Donald Maass

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How to Improve Writing Skills

Worksheets for The Breakout Novelist

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How to Improve Writing Skills

The Breakout Novelist

Overcoming Writer's Block

Exercise: Defining Personal Stakes

Overcoming Writer's Block

Exercise: Capturing the Moment of Irrevocable Commitment

Overcoming Writer's Block

Exercise: Raising Public Stakes

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How to Improve Writing Skills

The Passion in Prose (And What That Really Means)

The 3 Key Types of "Stakes" That Drive Novels
How to Improve Writing Skills

The 3 Key Types of "Stakes" that Drive Novels

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Writing Your First Draft

How to Channel Passion in Your Writing

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Overcoming Writer's Block

4 Techniques to Fire Up Your Fiction