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Género. Ensayo.

Lo que nos cuenta, La pareja de autores, con cierta experiencia en diferentes ámbitos del mundillo editorial, nos muestran un buen número de situaciones con las que se han enfrentado al leer libros, valorar manuscritos o corregir obras, con la doble intención de llamar la atención sobre cosas que los escritores deberían tratar de evitar por el bien de la obra y que el lector de este libro pase un buen rato.


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sitelink librosdeolethros. blogspot . I don't know why I find Mittelmark and Newman so entertaining, but they crack me up.
My default setting is silliness, and these two are good at silly, while also providing a lot of very helpful information.
I loved Read This Next, so I decided to give this one a go, even though I have no intention of even pretending to have novelistic aspirations.
I enjoy books like this because they help me define why some books/authors work for me and others just make me want to stab someone.


The only reason I'm not giving this five is because I have not tested it for its intended purpose, which is to help people write better novels.
Nor will I ever be testing that feature, so I go with four, I loved the book, though, and read a lot of it out loud to myself in the wee hours when I couldn't sleep.
If it were really possible to laugh your butt off, I'd now be buttless,

CAVEAT READER/WRITER: This book is not for everyone, The authors go to extremes with their fake writing samples and wiseassery in order to make their points.
If you are someone who takes everything literally and doesn't get the value of hyperbole and humor used instructively, you will probably complain that the book is too flip or sarcastic to be useful.
And I pity you, because your life is probably mighty dull,


This is just a brilliant read not only for the writer, but as a reader I very much enjoyed this and chuckled so much.
. . Eh.
Ok so I pretty much knew all the tips in this book just because I read so much.
Blah Blah Blah.
It was super inappropriate, Almost every example clip was a lust or suggestive scene, It was very unnecessary for the content of the book,
I didn't end up finishing it, although I did read the little headers for most of the tips, to get brushed up.

I wouldn't recommend this book, Most of the stuff the author blabs about you can learn simply by reading,
Disappointed. I was going to give this book two and call it basic, full of rookie mistakes, until I hit the last few chapters and realized that there are people making these mistakes and still getting published.
You may have heard of them, A great number of them are vomiting partially digested versions of Twilight into the YA market,

Given that realization, I had to let go of the review I'd been planning, Here, instead, is the one I'm making up on the spot,

I, personally, didn't learn anything from this book, Most of the things it had to say are things I've either absorbed or been taught over time.
That's not to say that there aren't people who will learn from this book on the contrary, doubtless there are many of them.
Some of the content it gets into later means I probably wouldn't give this to a middle schooler, but many of them could doubtless stand to benefit.


Without hesitation, I would send this to a couple of published authors, Alexanda Adornetto is first and foremost among them, because she does pretty much everything wrong in the Theme section.
Becca Fitzpatrick would get a copy too, and I hear tell Jennifer Murgia could use a bit of help as well.


Given that authors are fucking up as described in this book and still getting published, though, one must wonder how valid the advice herein is.
Only time will tell.


Now, the humor aspect I didn't laugh, Not once. Maybe that has more to do with me than with Mittelmark and Newman take it as you will.
I do think that the book would have been funnier if it stuck to its title theme and presented every horrible idea/technique as if it were pure gold sure to incite a twentyhouse bidding war.
The little sarcastic bits at the beginning of each section really didn't do enough, This is a fairly straightforward writing guide wrapped up in a thin shawl of original concept,

I was also continually frustrated with the examples, I understand that they were supposed to be egregious, but I feel like that makes them less helpful rather than showing the subtle ways flaws creep into a work, they exaggerated everything beyond the point of believabilty.
Also, some of them were so unmitigatedly bad that I had to set the book down in the midst of reading them.
They're only half a page each! That's just too awful,


It is a quick read, though, so that's a plus, I can't say I recommend this book, but if you choose to read it it won't take up much of your time.
However, whatever time you spend on it might be better spent on TV Tropes or, better yet, reading sitelinkThe Tough Guide to Fantasyland.
Muy didáctico y recomendable para los nuevos escritores, Plantea valiosos consejos y recomendaciones para moldear un buen ejercicio narrativo,

Elementos prácticos:
Construcción de personajes
Voces narrativas
Tramas y giros
Diálogos, entre otros.


Calificación:,This is priceless, The writers go through all sort of ways in which you can write a novel badly, from flat characters to nonexistent or implausible plots to unintelligible or ridiculous writing, and illustrate each problem with an extract of writing which exemplifies and parodies these mistakes.
Their style is so hilarious that I couldn't stop laughing out loud, and it was so addictive I gobbled up the book in one evening.
You can definitely recognise many flaws that you have seen in bad writing of others and then at some point you suddenly realise that the few paragraphs you just read are only an exaggerated example of your own writing.
Say, when I read the example text about writing every single passing mood and feeling of the characters into your narrative, I suddenly realised many of my relationship stories might be in need of editing.


Nobody can commit all the mistakes in this book at once because some of them are contradictory, but I'd say most of us commit some of them to a greater or lesser degree.
The good thing is that because you're laughing heartily all the time while reading the book, you forget to feel bad about discovering that something you have written is actually rather ridiculous or unreadable or at least boring.


All writers can benefit from this book, I'm sure, and probably anyone who's ever suffered from reading bad fiction will also take pleasure from reading the hilarious examples in this book.
Sadly, there were a few examples where the writing reminded me vividly of certain published and extremely popular books, which means that even this book isn't a foolproof guide to writing an unpublishable novel.
. . But probably it works in most cases, The subtitle promisesclassic mistakes, Ill take their word for it, because I did not count them, Those mistakes are grouped into parts, such as plot, character and style, Each mistake includes an example, followed by commentary, Each example and comment usually runs only a page or two, so the book is an excellent way to tune into writing at the beginning of a session.


It is also funny, very snarky, One of the funniest things is that I often recognized the mistakes, having seen them in other peoples writing, such as when Ive joined peer critiques on various writing websites.
While reading this book, I actually developed some sympathy for agents and others who have to wade through a slush pile, because I can always opt out of reading peer writing on a website, but they have to push on in their search for that rare gem.


If youve honestly been working hard at it, youre probably not making most of these mistakes, though were all different, and as I said, Ive seen most of them made.
Sometimes though, I came across something that was hilarious but in the back of my mind I wondered, mmmm, could I be accused of this Or more accurately, could some agent or editor misinterpret my intentions and believe that such and such a mistake exists in my writing when, of course, it doesnt

So the biggest problem with this book is you might be so amused by the examples and sharp, witty banter that you fail to notice a lesson worth taking to heart.
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Right. While this book is perfectly upfront that it's about showing mistakes not successes and is really more 'humour section' material than lit crit, it could actually have been quite a bit better.
This is not to say that there aren't perfectly valid points here e, g. nonnative speakers of English tend to learn words like 'Yes' and 'Hello' quite quickly, Poirot,

A lot of the time though, it's stating the bleeding obvious and seems directed at a kind of wretchedly deluded E.
L. James vampirezombieerotica aspirant who I'm pretty sure wouldn't read this kind of book in the first place.
I may be wrong. There's a section on 'straw men' and this one's full of straw men,

As a result, it often comes across as, frankly, quite patronising and gleefully bullying to the extent where I found myself wanting to ask how many decent novels have you written, chaps.


I do get the idea of using 'made up' paragraphs of bad writing to illustrate a point, but a lot of these are so exaggeratedly crass and pulpy, they leave you thinking 'Christ, but nobody is proposing that'.
The whimsical madeup hero names in them really started to grate all that "Colonel Soy Lattay touched down on Planet Starbux and checked his smoothie monitor.
. . ". Ah, shaddap.

I'm not ultimately sure the premise works that well: I think we learn more from good writers writing beautifully and appallingly see Updike's widely cited stinker 'Terrorist' than we do from parodying bad submissions.
The nearmisses are more revealing than the total goofs,

So, well meant but a little tiresome, Chiar dacă autorii Howard Mittelmark și Sandra Newman nu ne învață cum să compunem un roman demn de premiul Pulitzer, e bine să citim exemplele lor foarte amuzante.
Și rîsul poate fi instructiv, atîta vreme cît îi identificăm pricina,

Sigur, nu e nici un secret, scrisul se învață prin exercițiu zilnic, silitor, tenace.
Înveți să gîndești gîndind cf, Roata plăcerilor, p,, înveți să mori murind, înveți să scrii scriind etc, Dar prozatorul contemporan nu mai poate fi ignorantul” de odinioară, luat în stăpînire de forța divină a Inspirației cu I mare neapărat.
Talentul, înzestrarea naturală nu sînt niciodată suficiente pentru a redacta un roman bun, În prezent, prozatorul știe precis ce face și meditează asupra procedeelor narative: nu mai este naiv și sentimental.


Autorii discută prin exemple hilare cîteva probleme foarte importante în arta narativă:
, Intriga ce se întîmplă în carte, pățaniile,
, Personajul cine pățește ceea ce pățește,
, Stilul cum să așezi adjectivul alături de substantiv,
, Perspectiva naratorului punctul de vedere, cine povestește, cui, la ce persoană,
, Cum arată un roman kitsch,
, De ce prozatorii nu se pricep să povestească o scenă erotică pentru asta sa înființat Bad Sex in Fiction Award”, cel mai puțin rîvnit dintre toate premiile posibile, a se vedea exemplul de la paginile
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Cum să redactezi o scrisoare către editor,

În Cum să nu scrii un roman, autorii dovedesc în negativ că știi realmente să scrii bine abia atunci cînd poți compune deliberat exemple cît mai tîmpite.
Nui așa simplu. Întrun cuvînt, o carte foarte utilă, . .

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