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Chris Baty: No Plot? No Problem? A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days

No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days I bought No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days by Chris Baty because I was interested in ideas to jump start my writing, to move a couple of book ideas off the drawingboard and into the pages of a word processor. I did not expect to finish a novel in 30 days, but I was hoping a book with that ambitious a title would help me move past «I have an idea based on a cast of quirky characters» to «I have a solid plot with a delightfully well fleshed out cast of quirky characters» in a month or so and in a year or so I might have «I have a great first draft of a gripping novel with an ambitious, suspenseful plot full of delightfully quirky well fleshed out characters.» Unfortunately, though it's a good book, No Plot? No Problem is not the book to help me (or anyone) do that.

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Chris Baty: No Plot? No Problem? A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days

  • Amazon Reviewer Stars: 4.5
  • Authors: Baty, Chris
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  • Description: San Francisco: Chronicle Books, c2004. 176 p. ; 19 cm
  • Dewey Decimal: 808.3 22
  • ISBN: 0811845052
  • LC Call Number: PN3365.B335
  • LibraryThing: LibraryThing
  • Published: 2004
  • Subjects: Fiction > Authorship

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