false <![CDATA[How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them: A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide]]> 2360064 3 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 avoid—at all costs—if 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. 2366831 book 1 4 2008 How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them: A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide total:127|5:44|4:49|3:27|2:6|1:1| 127 510 254 47 2360064 0061357952 9780061357954 109 39 How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them: A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide 4.02 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2360064.How_Not_to_Write_a_Novel_200_Classic_Mistakes_and_How_to_Avoid_Them_A_Misstep_by_Misstep_Guide 4 3 false Tue May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 20 05:18:52 -0700 2008 Tue May 20 05:24:04 -0700 2008 People who critique this book as "too basic" are probably still convinced that they have something original to add to the literary canon, or they are MFA's...more...]]> 2360064 0061357952 9780061357954 109 39 How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them: A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide 4.02 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