Friday, February 10, 2012

Book Review: The Fire In Fiction - Donald Maass





I recently finished Donald Maass' The Fire In Fiction. In summary, this is the single best book on writing I've come across. Mr. Maass covers the following topics:

Protagonists vs Heroes
Characters Who Matter
Scenes That Can't be Cut
Novels,
Voice
Making the Impossible Real
Hyper reality
Tension
The Fire in Fiction

Each chapter has nuts-and-bolts practical tools and exercises and all this from the man who is considered one of the top Literary Agents in the business as well as having authored numerous other works on writing.

I would recommend this for anyone serious about writing fiction.

Larry
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