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No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-stress, High-velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days - Community Reviews back

by Chris Baty
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Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios
Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios rated it 8 years ago
“Anyway, whenever people express their reluctance to invest time in something that won’t have proven results, I ask them what they do for fun on weekends. Invariably, the time they spend running around on basketball courts, rearranging Scrabble tiles, or slaying video-game monsters is not done in an...
Anfenwick
Anfenwick rated it 11 years ago
This is the NaNoWriMo* handbook. It's perfect for the task in that it contains a limited amount of extremely suitable advice. It's also extremely funny. That makes it worth reading even for those writers who don't feel inclined to embark on a 50,000 word sprint. What it doesn't contain is a lot of d...
Folding Paper & Spilling Ink
Folding Paper & Spilling Ink rated it 11 years ago
If you're considering trying out National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), or want to write a novel and don't know where to start, this is a great book to pick up. It gives you a place to begin, and a week by week roadmap. The words therein offer plenty of tips and cheerleading to keep you on track....
Chasm of Books
Chasm of Books rated it 11 years ago
No Plot? No Problem! is an informative but entertaining book for any writer. It's full of great advice and awesome ways to flesh out characters and various other elements of your novel. The secrets of finding time to write in a hectic schedule are also shared among other things. No one could ask f...
Thief of Camorr
Thief of Camorr rated it 12 years ago
I highly suggest this to anyone doing NaNo or who simply likes writing... or anyone who likes being amazed by fantastic hilarious writing. Chris Baty is awesome.
MizNikki
MizNikki rated it 12 years ago
No one to support your writing? You might want this book. Wanna do that NaNo thing where you write 50,000 words toward a novel in just 30 days? Here is a guideline. Want the intricacies of writing a novel? Look elsewhere. This is mainly a you-can-do-it book. Spit, or roll your words out and get rid ...
Inkspot Fancy
Inkspot Fancy rated it 12 years ago
If you're looking for a book about the craft of writing, about the structure of a novel or the arc of a character or the way to weave an entralling plot... pass this one by. That's not what it does, and is not what it's about.This is, instead a book about the sheer basics of writing - About how to s...
Chasm of Books
Chasm of Books rated it 13 years ago
This is a very informative but entertaining book for any writer. It is full of great advice and awesome ways to flesh out characters and various other elements of your novel. The secrets of finding time to write in a hectic schedule are also shared among other things.No one could ask for a better bo...
Minor Characters
Minor Characters rated it 14 years ago
Confession: I avoided this book for years due to an overwhelming aversion to the title and all the stupidity it implies. (No Plot? No Problem! Really? Way to reduce a creative endeavor into something minor, without worth, and to a level so low even imbeciles might try their hand at it, as if th...
Kiwiria
Kiwiria rated it 14 years ago
Well-written book, and it even got me motivated to try out my hand at NaNoWriMo - and I CAN'T WRITE! So that gives you an impression either of how deluded I am, or how good the book is.Filled with good tricks for how to write a 50,000 novel in a month, it's not really relevant for anything else - so...
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