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How Not to Write a Novel 200 Mistakes to Avoid at All Costs If You Ever Want to Get Published on the Other Side ofThere 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