Bad Advice for Writers returns with a NaNoWriMo edition

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A new column full of Bad Advice is up now at Huffington Post.

Whenever you see a negative review that makes you say to yourself, “I should reach out to this person, perhaps in a borderline illegal fashion,” by all means do so. Find out where they live if you want! Show up on their doorstep and offer to politely explain how they simply failed to understand your novel. Make it clear that this is something they need to resolve within themselves and not a reflection on your work, and also that there’s no need whatsoever to call the police, so please put down the phone and stop crying.

The full article can be found here.

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  1. augustmacgregor on October 28, 2014 at 1:01 pm

    This sounds like a good way to have the critic call the police on a writer as they “politely explain” the failings of the critic 🙂

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