How to Write the Perfect Novel - A Tongue-In-Cheek Guide to Certain Literary Success
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How to Write the Perfect Novel - A Tongue-In-Cheek Guide to Certain Literary Success
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How to Write the Perfect Novel brings you Craftsmanship through Negative Learning By showing you the worst excesses of 'popular fiction' it liber... read full description

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Apr 25, 2011
Poison Pixie added it
There are hundreds of conventional writers’ guides on the market, but none so scathing, cynical and downright cantankerous as this one. Forget toadying to publishers or obsessing over return postage, in this insider exposé veteran author, Chancery Stone, spares no-one’s blushes as she strips the book world bare and reveals the true working methods of publishers and authors alike.

Interspersed with laugh-out-loud parodies of best-selling thrillers, romances, crime, science fiction, er More...
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Nov 08, 2011
A.M. rated it: 4 of 5 stars
I have read very few 'conventional' writers' guides. Most of them are as dull as counting grains of sand with a toothpick (the worst offender being, of course, The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories). No one wants to sit through an author’s self-righteous preaching about the ‘right’ way to write. So it was with great pleasure and anticipation that I settled down to read this tongue-in-cheek, scathing, cynical, and downright amusing how-to guide.

The guide is penned by Chancery S More...
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Jan 24, 2011
Amy rated it: 4 of 5 stars
I got this book from a goodreads drawing. While I am a reader, not a writer, I still got a great deal of entertainment from this book. I really enjoyed the author's sense of humor!
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Jul 07, 2009
Bill rated it: 3 of 5 stars
An entertaining and educating journey into the world of writings slings and arrows, contradictions and endless frustrations.
Chancery covers the gamut of writing pitfalls and cliches while parting some hard earned wisdom. Thank of it as Chicken Soup for the Slightly Jaded Writer.
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Apr 28, 2010
J.M. added it
Saw this on the Goodreads Giveaways and thought it looked neat.
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