Rachel here: Donald Maass has graced the writing world with a new fiction craft book. “The Fire in Fiction.” The opening chapter is worth the price of the book. Maass talks about the status seekers of publishing and the storytellers. While there is a little bit of storytelling in the status seekers and a bit of status seeking in storytellers, each author has a strong leaning. Starting out, we all feel committed to the process. We will advance step-by-step, no matter what it takes, we’ll achieve excellence. We want to be the best. But, we grow impatient. After one manuscript with a crit partner we shuffle the manuscript off to agents or editors. We see other writers in our “class” moving ahead, signing with an agent, getting a full manuscript […]
