Thread: What makes a good book better?
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Old 04-04-2012, 03:02 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by Nancy Fulda View Post
Literary agent Donald Maass (who represents several prominent authors) discusses this topic in "Writing the Breakout Novel". It's an excellent read, and I hesitate to attempt to summarize a rather lengthy book, but a couple of the elements he mentioned are:

Larger-than-life characters
Heightened stakes
Unexpected moments of grace
Beautiful language

I'm not sure whether I came away from the book able to write better novels, but I certainly came away from it thinking that Donald Maass is a very, very smart man.
Very interesting. I like those elements in the books I read.
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