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Author:	Howard Mittelmark
Subcategory:	Writing Research & Publishing Guides
Language:	English
Publisher:	William Morrow Paperbacks; 3.2.2008 edition (April 1, 2008)
Pages:	272 pages
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Many writing books offer sound advice on how to write well. This is not one of those books. Rather than telling you how or what to write, they identify the 200 most common mistakes unconsciously made by writers and teach you to recognize, avoid, and amend them.

Many writing books offer sound advice on how to write well. 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. 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.

The 200 classic mistakes are diverse and there's no way the reader will remember them all. So, if you're an. .

Reading it once isn't enough. You'll refer to it regularly. The book is written in list form, with each mistake getting its own little section, complete with a hilarious example of what not to do. These sections are like potato chips.

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Best Books for Writers . How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic . Each chapter includes countless tips on how to identify, avoid, troubleshoot, and amend missteps to create a more effective. How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them-A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide. Each chapter includes countless tips on how to identify, avoid, troubleshoot, and amend missteps to create a more effective manuscript. ISBN: 978-0061357954.

Misstep by misstep, How Not to Write a Novel shows how you can ensure that your manuscript never rises . Alternatively, you can use it to identify the most common mistakes, avoid them and actually write a book that works.

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.

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What do you think of my fiction book writing? the aspiring novelist extorted. Novel : 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them-A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide.

book by Sandra Newman. What do you think of my fiction book writing? the aspiring novelist extorted. How Not to Write a Novel : 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them-A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide. by Howard Mittelmark and Sandra Newman.

"What do you think of my fiction book writing?" the aspiring novelist extorted.

"Darn," the editor hectored, in turn. "I can not publish your novel! It is full of what we in the business call 'really awful writing.'"

"But how shall I absolve this dilemma? I have already read every tome available on how to write well and get published!" The writer tossed his head about, wildly.

"It might help," opined the blonde editor, helpfully, "to ponder how NOT to write a novel, so you might avoid the very thing!"

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, authors Howard Mittelmark and Sandra Newman 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 to 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.

Comments:

Fearlesssinger

Among many books that advise others how to write novels, this book takes the unique route of telling readers what *not* to do, resulting in a book that is surprisingly funny and enjoyable in addition to being useful.

The book, as its title implies, shows various pitfalls that unpublished authors fall into when submitting their manuscripts, showing the mistakes as they play out, explaining what's wrong with them and giving some advice as to how to avoid them, which includes not going to the opposite extreme and always knowing what's needed for the kind of story you want to write. There are other good features, such as a quiz that shows whether your characters are too cliched, too bizarre or just right, and similar "how not to" tips for submitting your work to publishers.

The examples tend to be somewhat on the exaggerated side, but they often do a good job of showing the problems in action. For example, "Convention of the Invisible Men" shows what a book would look like without any indication of who is speaking or description of the setting, which should serve as a cautionary tale to writers who assume that readers will automatically know who's saying a given line without being told who's speaking. The use of humor also effectively prevents the book from coming off like a textbook, and makes it an enjoyable read for those who like writing; even avid readers may enjoy seeing its perspective on various writing styles.

All in all, it's an excellent and quite amusing "how not to" book that aspiring writers should read.

Cheber

I'm still laughing my way through this book. I read a few pages every night, before bed. This book provides great advice, and hilarious examples of how NOT to write a novel... not even part of one.

I'm a best-selling author. (Really. I'm not saying that to sound impressive, and the reality of this still boggles the mind, but there it is. And yes, I write under pen names.) So, I thought I knew a lot about writing.

Wrong!

In the first chapter of this book, I discovered why one of my novels had never succeeded. I'd broken one of the first rules of plotting. And, I'd not only done that once or twice in the beginning of my novel... I'd repeated the same mistake throughout the book, with mind-numbing effects.

I'm not sure I'd have seen the error of my ways, or accepted that it really is a horrendous blunder, except for the humorous presentation in "How Not to Write a Novel." The hilarious, overblown examples in the book took the sting out of the lesson, and made me an instant fan of this book.

This is more than a "read it once" book. The 200 classic mistakes are diverse and there's no way the reader will remember them all. So, if you're an author (or and aspiring author), go ahead and buy this book. Reading it once isn't enough. You'll refer to it regularly.

It's one of my best purchases of 2013, and I'm still laughing every time I open this book. It's cleverly written, full of delightful puns (sometimes well-hidden in character names... be sure to say them out loud) and delicious sarcasm.

Experienced authors will probably find this book more helpful than new and aspiring writers, but everyone can benefit from reading it, repeatedly.

Doomredeemer

If you have ever considered writing a novel, buy this book right now. How Not to Write a Novel is a hilarious, indispensable guide to help you navigate the pitfalls that bring down many would-be authors.

The book is written in list form, with each mistake getting its own little section, complete with a hilarious example of what not to do. These sections are like potato chips. You consume one, then another, then another, and suddenly you realize it’s been hours and you’ve finished everything there is. Seriously, I read this in one sitting by accident. It’s that addictive.

While some of the advice may feel obvious to more experienced writers, like “don’t use big words you don’t know” (pg. 103: The Crepuscular Handbag), the humor keeps the lessons fresh and invigorating. The authors’ sarcasm and biting wit churn out several quotable one-liners, and the theme of teaching the reader how to avoid getting published only grows in hilarity as the book goes on. The examples in the final section on “How Not to Sell a Novel” are comedic gold.

I will be applying every lesson in this book to my own writing, and I recommend that you do the same. You’ll giggle through every edit you make.

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