num_pages: 262
description: 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 avoidat all costsif 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.
language: English
title: How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them—A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide
publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks