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kathrynamonett's review
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Do not bother with this. It's basically thirty flimsy paragraphs, many with utterly useless advice for writing, much less writing a novel in 30 days. Most of the pieces of advice are distractions from writing and simply time wasting (#28 Check your spam folder) not help with actual writing itself, and some of the writing advice is outstandingly bad. For example.
"21. Nothing happens
Have you ever read a chapter - or even a whole book - and realized that nothing really happened? No character growth. No changes. Nothing of note.
Write that.
Spend and entire chapter with nothing happening. It doesn't have to be literally nothing happening. Your characters can move around. They can talk. They can go out to eat a meal. But there should be no forward momentum of the plot at all."
This is such terrible advice I cannot believe it's even in there. This is what all writers want to AVOID at all costs. This is the cancer of prose, the parts of novels that when you see you've written them, you edit out. If might help bulk up your word count, but it's teaching you BAD writing habits. And she has an MFA in Creative Writing?
Don't get this book. Instead, try the TRULY helpful Plot Whisperer. It's not guided for NaNoWriMo, but is a nice guide.
"21. Nothing happens
Have you ever read a chapter - or even a whole book - and realized that nothing really happened? No character growth. No changes. Nothing of note.
Write that.
Spend and entire chapter with nothing happening. It doesn't have to be literally nothing happening. Your characters can move around. They can talk. They can go out to eat a meal. But there should be no forward momentum of the plot at all."
This is such terrible advice I cannot believe it's even in there. This is what all writers want to AVOID at all costs. This is the cancer of prose, the parts of novels that when you see you've written them, you edit out. If might help bulk up your word count, but it's teaching you BAD writing habits. And she has an MFA in Creative Writing?
Don't get this book. Instead, try the TRULY helpful Plot Whisperer. It's not guided for NaNoWriMo, but is a nice guide.
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