How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid ThemâA Misstep-by-Misstep Guide
of Howard Mittelmark (Goodreads Author), Sandra Newman (Goodreads Author)
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Many writing books offer sound advice on how to write well. This is not one of those books. On the contrary, this is a collection of terrible, awkward, and laughably unreadable excerpts that will teach you what to avoidâat all costsâif you ever want your novel published.In How Not to Write a Novel, authors Howard Mittelmark and Sandra Newman distill their 30 years combined experience in teaching, editing, writing, and reviewing fiction to bring you real advice from the other side of the query letter. Rather than telling you how or what to write, they identify the 200 most common mistakes unconsciously made by writers and teach you to recognize, avoid, and amend them. With hilarious "mis-examples" to demonstrate each manuscript-mangling error, they'll help you troubleshoot your beginnings and endings, bad guys, love interests, style, jokes, perspective, voice, and more. As funny as it is useful, this essential how-NOT-to guide will help you get your manuscript out of the slush pile and into the bookstore.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 262 pages
- Publisher William Morrow Paperbacks
- Publication Date April 1st 2008
- First Publication Not informed
- Language English
- ISBN 9780061357954
- Edition Not informed
- Category Arts & Culture
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