By This Time Next Month, You Can be a Novelist!

By admin on May 7th, 2008

Browsing at Barnes and Nobles the other day, I was surprised at the sudden wealth of Get-Rich-Quick-Write-the-Next-Harry-Potter-Bigger-Than-Stephen-King-You-Yes-You-Too-can-Write-a-Book-With-No-Money-Down titles crowding the shelves.

I Think it started with Viki King’s How to Write a Movie in 21 Days, which besides having an awesome title is an actually pretty decent book on screenwriting and beating writer’s block. Hey, it’s been in print for fifteen years, How bad can it be?

Then there’s Chris Baty’s No Plot? No Problem!. The NaNoWriMo founder champions silencing the inner critic and writing for the pure joy of it. Just don’t tell the rest of us you’re a real writer.

Then There’s First Draft in Thirty Days. Use the time Chris gives you to actually, you know, PLAN A BOOK, and you might be able to produce something readable by an audience outside your own immediate family.

Not to be outdone, Writer’s Digest has produced Book in a Month. As usual, it’s a gorgeous book, filled with worksheets, illustrations and more guaranteed to make you feel like it’s your fault you didn’t finish the book, you loser, you.

Of course, sometimes you don’t have 30 days to write your book. That’s where the internet comes in handy, where you can find out how to Write your E-Book in 7 Days.

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One Response to “By This Time Next Month, You Can be a Novelist!”

  1. National Novel Writing Month Kick-Off | Byzantine Roads says:
    November 1, 2008 at 4:06 pm

    [...] Need More inspiration? Want to do better than just churning out a couple hundred random pages? The Success of NaNoWriMo has spawned a cottage industry of Quick-And-Dirty writing books. check out our review of Several Book in a Month Products. [...]

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