Howard Mittelmark: How NOT to Write a Novel: 200 Mistakes to avoid at All Costs if You Ever Want to Get Published [2009] paperback FTRAN 'The historian of China' Spectator

'The historian of China' Spectator

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Howard Mittelmark: How NOT to Write a Novel: 200 Mistakes to avoid at All Costs if You Ever Want to Get Published [2009] paperback FTRAN 'The historian of China' SpectatorThere 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