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How Not to Write a Novel
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| Product ID: 4108 |
| Price: $15.95 |
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Description: How Not to Write a Novel—Howard Mittelmark & Sandra Newman
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, the authors 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 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.
Writer and editor Howard Mittelmark’s book reviews and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Hollywood Reporter, Writer’s Digest and other publications. Sandra Newman is the author of the novels Cake and The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done. Her writing has appeared in Harper’s, Granta, and other publications.
- Collins (an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers), 2008
- Trade paperback, 5.25” x 8”, 261 pages.
Ninth Moon donates one dollar from every book sold to support writing programs for children. Quotes for Kids brings authors into the classroom to share excitement, encouragement and industry knowledge. Thank you, as always, for buying our books and being a part of this program.
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