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How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them—A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide, by Howard Mittelmark

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Perfect people are boring. Perfect people are obnoxious because they’re better than us. Perfect people are, above all, too good to be true. Protagonists should only be as nice as everyday people are in real life.
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How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them—A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide
How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them—A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide
by Howard Mittelmark
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