Advanced Fiction Methods | 4-Part Bundle + Free Bonus

4-Part Online Workshop with Donald Maass

January 14th & 28th, February 18th, and March 4th | 4PM PT

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Don Maass’ Advanced Fiction Methods 4-part, hands-on workshop series for experienced fiction writers will take your writing and storytelling to the next level. A must for every serious writer regardless of genre. 🚨 FREE BONUS

Post-webinar, participants are invited to send their opening 50 pages for analysis and suggestions by Perkins (beta version), a teaching tool developed by Donald Maass and Sean Cranbury to assess manuscript effectiveness and show how techniques taught by Maass can be implemented in your work-in-progress. This one-time offer is free.

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• Part 1 Elements of Advanced Openings — Wednesday, January 14th Are openings what “happens” first? Stronger openings focus on what draws the reader in. This master class delves into aspects of openings such as reader bonding, personalizing the story problem, the necessity of action, range of narrative voice, immersive POV, layered anticipation, secondary intrigue, energized set up and back story, self-disclosure, intrigue and nuance.

• Part 2 Character Enhancement — Wednesday, January 28th Characters’ grip on readers is often lower than hoped. This master class examines advanced aspects of character such as using fate or destiny, the new heroism, higher challenges, dual nature, character layers, the shaping past, secret reader appeal, cast contrast, inner journey and character greatness.

• Part 3 Advanced Plot — Wednesday, February 18th Plot impact does not flow from events themselves, but from their underlying aspects such as internal imperative, complexity, escalation, emotional hammer, woven layers, cognitive challenge, micro-tension, and the reorientation of scenes from visual sequence to structured change.

• Part 4 Emotional Impact & Meaning — Wednesday, March 4th Psychological research shows that reported character emotions have zero emotional impact on readers. So, what does? This master class explores creating impact through surprise, depth, higher emotions, midpoint definition, catalyst/catharsis, defeat, moral stakes, change, as well as hidden theme, protagonist/antagonist justification, story importance, goodness and meaning.

YOUR INSTRUCTOR

A literary agent in New York, Donald Maass’s agency sells more than 200 novels every year to major publishers in the U.S. and overseas.  He is the author of The Career Novelist (1996), Writing the Breakout Novel (2001), Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook (2004), The Fire in Fiction (2009), Writing 21^st Century Fiction (2012) and The Emotional Craft of Fiction (2016).  He is a past president of the Association of Authors’ Representatives, Inc.