Deep Reader Engagement

Part 1 of 4 | Deep Craft With Don Maass: Deep Reader Engagement

Live on ZOOM

Why do we read stories and feel “as if” they are happening to us? Plot hooks and sympathetic characters do not explain it. The irresistible tug of story results from deeper connections that readers feel. This hands-on workshop explores the methods of creating those connections through universal story elements, the storyteller’s spell, underlying values and hopes, ultimate stakes, enveloping perils, and other ways in which the stories of fictional characters become the stories of us all.

This is part 1 of a 4 part session, but the lessons being taught work as a stand alone workshop.

Class link will be sent prior to the event, and after the class you'll have access to rewatch for 30 days.

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.