How not to write a novel : 200 mistakes to avoid at all costs if you ever want to get published / Howard Mittelmark y Sandra Newman.

By:

Mittelmark, Howard

Language: eng Publication details: London : Penguin, 2009.Description: 262 pages ; 22 cmISBN:

9780141038544

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LOC classification:

PN 3365 M685h 2009

Contents:

Plot -- Character -- Style: the basics -- Style: perspective and voice -- the world of the bad novel -- Special effects and novelty acts: do not try this at home -- How not to sell a novel.

Summary: There are many ways prospective authors routinely sabotage their own work. But why leave it to guesswork? Misstep by misstep, How Not to Write a Novel shows how you can ensure that your manuscript never rises above the level of unpublishable drivel; that your characters are unpleasant, dimensionless versions of yourself; that your plot is digressive, tedious and unconvincing; and that your style is reliant on mangled cliches and sesquipedalian malapropisms. Alternatively, you can use it to identify the most common mistakes, avoid them and actually write a book that works.

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Originally published: New York: HarperCollins, 2008.

Includes index.

Plot -- Character -- Style: the basics -- Style: perspective and voice -- the world of the bad novel -- Special effects and novelty acts: do not try this at home -- How not to sell a novel.

There are many ways prospective authors routinely sabotage their own work. But why leave it to guesswork? Misstep by misstep, How Not to Write a Novel shows how you can ensure that your manuscript never rises above the level of unpublishable drivel; that your characters are unpleasant, dimensionless versions of yourself; that your plot is digressive, tedious and unconvincing; and that your style is reliant on mangled cliches and sesquipedalian malapropisms. Alternatively, you can use it to identify the most common mistakes, avoid them and actually write a book that works.

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