Book Description
MOTHER MILLER'S HOW TO WRITE GOOD BOOK is a writing guide that doesn't take itself too seriously, but even so, it is full of advice that the would-be writer of prose, and particularly of fiction, would do well to heed. Put this concise guide on a shelf close to your desk, in between THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE and your favorite dictionary. You'll reach for it often. Written with wit and humor, MMHTWGB (this book is best known by its initials) covers everything from plotting to character development to grammar to manuscript style. Sasha Miller writes with the sharp, witty, acerbic, and yet gentle style that has made her the bane and the delight of hundreds of writing students.
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From the Back Cover
"Without a well-oiled story-telling instinct, the person who is schooled only in the technical aspects of language will put out finely constructed drivel that will bore a reader to tears. Story-telling instinct can't be taught; either you have it or you don't. But technical skills can be taught, and without them, the would-be writer is operating with both hands firmly tied behind her back. There may be a story lying somewhere beneath the clumsy verbiage, the poor phrasing, the incoherent sentence structures, but it is suffocating for lack of readers who will attempt to fight their way through the garbage to get to it. And editors--those people who buy works of fiction--won't bother." --From Essay One, NUTS AND BOLTS
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