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  <title><![CDATA[Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook: Hands-On Help for Making Your Novel Stand Out and Succeed]]></title>
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  <default_description>This powerful book builds on the success of it predecessor-Writing the Breakout Novel-and takes readers to the next level: improving their work with practical, hands-on lessons and exercises.   &lt;P&gt;With patented techniques from his popular writing workshops, Donald Maass shows fiction writers exactly how to make their work stand out from the crowd. Readers will learn how to strengthen any novel-in-progress, with sections on: - Building Plot Layers - Creating Inner Conflict - Strengthening Point of View and Voice - Discovering Larger Than Life Character Qualities   - Developing the Psychology of Place  &lt;P&gt;Every workbook exercise is followed by examples from real-life breakout novels. This is one of the most accessible novel-writing guides available today.</default_description>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This has to be, by far, my favorite writing-craft book ever. Don't read it unless you plan to make your book incredible. You've been warned.<br/><br/>Each chapter starts with a short article about a given aspect of breakout-fiction. (Breakout meaning bestseller, critically acclaimed, etc.) Donald ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33380254">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this at my friend's house pretty much in one setting.  I'd like to think that it would help me write better, but it turned out to be more a case of &quot;do that, oops, do that, oops, did that, doing that, oops.&quot;  Not a bad reminder of what makes a novel sell, though his choice of examples...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76534350">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fantastic workbook to dig deep and go wide into places you never thought of.  The exercises add such depth and dimension and help a writer to create a non-linear work.  I also attended his one-day workshop this past weekend with two friends.  We were blown away with what ideas came of it and the pla...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33879632">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[it amazes me... i can look at this book and others like it, see the logic, get excited... and still not write.  but if i followed directions, i have no doubt this book would get me through a novel.  writing nonfiction comes easily for me; this book makes writing fiction feel as easy.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue May 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this book. Donald Maass' teaching style totally speaks to me. Some other writing books have helped me understand the craft of writing, but this set is what helped me pull it off myself. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the most useful writing reference books I've ever had.  I wouldn't say it's the be all end all of writing references, but it made me look at my manuscript in a whole new way and guided me through making it better.  Worth every penny.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Awesome book...I am constantly referring to it as I write. It's a great push to make your novel better at every turn...can't even imagine the crap I would be writing if I didn't have this for reference.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If I had to recommend just this book or its parent, &quot;Writing the Breakout Novel,&quot; I'd choose this one.  It contains most of the info from the other, and the exercises are really helpful.  ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jun 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to unlock all the elements of your book that you don't even know are lodged in your brain.  That's what it helped me do anyway!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Really need a complete draft of a manuscript before starting this workbook]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Even more stuff than the book has! Great tool for writers.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love using this book to edit my NaNoWriMos]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Prize</em>!]]></body>
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