How Not To Get Published - How To Win the WWOTYA - Introduction

By: Gabrielle Guichard
Submitted: 2007-01-17 16:43:26
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So far –and I have been working part time in the field for a quarter of a century-- I have never read THE perfect bad novel. For some reason, despite all their efforts, the writers salvage something. Thus, the novel is not even published as a curiosity: the worst novel in the world. If you really want your novel displayed in a glass case in a museum, or locked in a wealthy connoisseur's safe, you cannot rely on chance. There are too many other writers who fight for the same achievement. To win the enviable Worst Writer Of The Year Award (let's start modestly !) you have to follow the rules of the game.

Except in the case of masochistic behavior, few people like to do something they fail to do well. If your neighbor tells you that he does not like to cook, you may bet your savings that he does not know how to cook. When people feel they have a talent for an activity, they like to practice this activity.

People who write like to do so because they feel they have a gift for writing. As a result, they cannot ruin every part of what counts in a novel (from the publisher's point of view) and they miss the total disaster almost inadvertently. They are betrayed by their talent. Either the plot is original, or the plan unfolds logically, or the dialogs are sharp and witty, or ... There is always something that is good enough to spoil the writer's chances of being the worst author of the year.

Now that I am a full-time editor for the English-French department of a new publishing house, and own a 4% share, I hope the championship to be won by one of my prot?g?s. This step-by-step guide intends to prevent the writer from any random success. The seven lessons will cover every aspect of novel writing so that, if you do not want to get published, just follow the How Not To Get Published guide.

Before we start with the first lesson, there is a magic to widely use: never answer the philosophical questions. Actually, who wants to know: who, where, when, what for, why, what or how? Always assume that the reader reads your thoughts. You will avoid a lot of work. The bad side is that you cannot do wrongly what you do not do and you may be missing the opportunity of failing right from the first sentence.

Be lenient with yourself: not anyone fails straight away.

Gabrielle Guichard writes bilingual textbooks and is in charge of the English-French department at Multilingual Bookstore, the publishing house that translates and publishes short novels.

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