I just finished reading Lee Child's Killing Floor, the first in his Jack Reacher series. I'm reading them all out of order, but I'm getting them as I can. For any writer who wonders what Donald Maass is talking about in Writing the Breakout Novel all I can say is this book is a text to study. And it's a first novel. I think I'm going to just cry green tears of envy. Want an illustration of how to make the stakes personally high? Read this book. Need to know how to get your character in an impossible, hopeless situation? Read this book. Need to remind yourself about what an Alpha Hero is like? Reacher drips Alpha. I guess you have to like hard, gritty mysteries which, fortunately, I do.
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