Self-Publishing Central: Agent Donald Maass Offers Help to Invigorate Flagging Prose

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Agent Donald Maass Offers Help to Invigorate Flagging Prose

4 Techniques to Fire Up Your Fiction from Agent Don Maass:
http://bit.ly/arrq0X

The above article holds some terrific -- and specific -- advice for converting dull characters into human beings with depth and interest, and spicing up a lagging scene.

Strongly recommended

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