Teaser Tuesdays: How NOT To Write a Novel

Reading time: 2 – 2 minutes

It’s hard to tease using guides and/or non-fiction books. They aren’t made for suspense.. but for guidance. But hopefully you can see the sort of tips you may get from this book and realize that it’s worth picking up!

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read.
• Open to a random page.
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page    * BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

My Teaser:  How NOT To Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and how to avoid them – a Misstep-by-Misstep Guide by Howard Mittelmark and Sandra Newman (ISBN: 978-0-06-135795-4)

While it should be clear that the rule of economy applies to dinner scenes just as it does everywhere else, beginning writers often feel compelled to give an account of the dinner orders of everyone at the table, and then to keep the reader appraised as to how good or bad the meal was.

It is true that in real life, people seem incapable of eating a meal without commenting on the relative goodness of the mashed potatoes, but this is one of the many points where novels cannot afford to be mimetic. -  Pg. 194

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