Top 17 Howard Mittelmark Quotes

#1. If John somehow turns into a different man and we do not witness that transformation, the editor considering your novel will somehow turn into an editor considering a different novel.

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#2. When well executed, description is unobtrusive and lends substance to a novel. It is the body fat of prose: too much is unhealthy, but without any, you no longer have the thing - you have its skeleton.

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#3. A good approach is to allow one dream per novel. Then, in the final revision, go back and get rid of that, too.

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#4. In real life, couples bond and war over a million different things. The causes of divorce are like beautiful, unique snowflakes.

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#5. Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to find himself turned into an enormous symbol.

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#6. There was a time when a book could be sold purely because its author had been to distant climes and had returned to tell of the exotic sights he had seen. That author was Marco Polo, and the time was the thirteenth century.

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#7. And Jesus lived happily ever after.

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#8. It has been demonstrated through years of workshops that the Artist Within tends to make the same mistakes as the artist within everybody else.

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#9. Remember: blonde, brunette, and redhead are not personality types.

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#10. Overuse at best is needless clutter; at worst, it creates the impression that the characters are overacting, emoting like silent film stars. Still, an adverb can be exactly what a sentence needs. They can add important intonation to dialogue, or subtly convey information.

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#11. He vacated a myriad times in the naively prolonged girl.

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#12. We do not propose any rules; we offer observations. "No right on red" is a rule. "Driving at high speed toward a brick wall usually ends badly" is an observation.

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#13. This particular blunder is known as deus ex machina, which is French for Are you fucking kidding me?

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#14. Giving a reader a sex scene that is only half right is like giving her half of a kitten. It is not half as cute as a whole kitten; it is a bloody, godawful mess.

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#15. Do not think us as traffic cops, or even driving instructors. Think of us instead as your onboard navigation system, available day or night, a friendly voice to turn to whenever you look up, lost and afraid, and think How the fuck did I end up here?

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#16. Unfortunately, this is so obviously a convention of bad fiction that it might as well read, 'Looking in the mirror, Joe saw a tall, brown-haired man, trapped in a poorly written novel.

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#17. The male author unthinkingly creates a world in which every single member of society is male except - hey presto! - when the protagonist feels like getting laid. Especially common in science fiction; apparently many writers assume that in the future women will die out.

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