{"id":9893,"date":"2011-07-18T14:08:38","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T18:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?page_id=9893"},"modified":"2012-04-11T18:48:36","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T22:48:36","slug":"250-things-about-writing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/chucks-books\/250-things-about-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"250 Things"},"content":{"rendered":"

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About This Book<\/h3>\n

\u201cChuck Wendig hammers out writing and career advice that’s always brave, profane, creative, clever, and honest. And don’t forget hilarious. You’ll never laugh so hard learning so much.” \u2013 Matt Forbeck, game designer and author of AMORTALS and VEGAS KNIGHTS (Angry Robot).<\/p>\n

\u201cYou walk into this book a quivering neophyte crusted with writer fantasies and walk away a seasoned word warrior ready to do battle in the arena we call publishing.\u201d \u2013 Kristen Lamb, author of ARE YOU THERE BLOG? IT\u2019S ME, WRITER<\/p>\n

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250 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT WRITING is a booze-soaked, profanity-brined, Zen-lacquered look at the craft and art of writing, one list of \u201c25 Things\u201d at a time.<\/p>\n

Featured within this book are the essays \u201c25 Things You Should Know About\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2026Being A Writer, Writing A Novel, Writing A Screenplay, Writing A F**king Sentence, Storytelling, Character, Plot, Dialogue, Description, Editing\/Revising, and finally, Getting Published.<\/p>\n

(And yes, that\u2019s actually 11 lists, which means the book actually has *275* things you should know about writing, but let\u2019s be honest, 250 sounds much cooler. Let\u2019s just go ahead and call that, \u201c25 bonus tips,\u201d shall we? Boom. Value added.)<\/p>\n

The book features sections such as:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Transubstantiation of Trope,\u201d \u201cWhy Bad Decisions Are A Good Decision,\u201d \u201cNobody Sees Themselves As A Supporting Character,\u201d “I Want To Buy The Semi-Colon A Private Sex Island,” and \u201cPlot Is Promise.\u201d<\/p>\n

Contained within are things you should know about plot holes, self-publishing versus legacy publishing, “on-the-nose” dialogue, story versus plot, metaphors, copy-editing, killing darlings with a claw hammer, cursing like an undead pirate, and generally being a cranky and irreverent creative type.<\/p>\n

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At terribleminds[dot]com, Chuck Wendig dispenses nuggets (okay, more like outright manifestos) of writing advice on a daily basis, and the site has been named one of the Top 101 Websites For Writers of 2011 by WRITER\u2019S DIGEST.<\/p>\n<\/form>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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