The essential guide to evoking emotional experiences in your readers Writers might disagree over showing versus telling or plotting versus pantsing, but none would argue this: If you want to write strong fiction, you must make your readers feel. Veteran literary agent and expert fiction instructor Donald Maass shows you how to use story to provoke a visceral and emotional experience in readers. You'll learn: - emotional modes of writing- beyond showing versus telling- your story's emotional world- moral stakes- connecting the inner and outer journeys- plot as emotional opportunities- invoking higher emotions, symbols, and emotional language- cascading change- story as emotional mirror- positive spirit and magnanimous writing- the hidden current that makes stories move Readers can simply read a novel...or they can experience it. The Emotional Craft of Fiction shows you how to make that happen.