How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them--A Misstep-By-Misstep Guide by Howard Mittelmark

How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them--A Misstep-By-Misstep Guide

Howard Mittelmark

262 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

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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...

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