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179 Ways to Save a Novel: Matters of Vital Concern to Fiction Writers 179 Ways to Save a Novel: Matters of Vital Concern to Fiction Writers by Peter Selgin
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“Never try to keep it professional, keep it smutty, write with bodily fluids on sandpaper, and damn the men with clipboards in white suits, the literary bean-counters, the prose police.”
― Peter Selgin, 179 Ways to Save a Novel: Matters of Vital Concern to Fiction Writers
“Think of all the stories that would end before they begin if their characters gave careful consideration to the consequences of their actions.”
― Peter Selgin, 179 Ways to Save a Novel: Matters of Vital Concern to Fiction Writers