Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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For Your "Not Like This" Collection

Every writer should have two collections of examples: "Like This" and "Not Like This." Thank you, crevette, for wading through the manure pile so we don't have to, and giving such a ... memorable account.
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Ha! I think I've seen that linked somewhere before. Good to read again, though.

I keep thinking that I want to keep a small collection of books that remind me of how not to write. (Examples off the top of my head would include Laurell K. Hamilton's later work, both in the Anita Blake series and the Merry Gentry series, and the Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins.) But then I'm like, why take up perfectly good shelf space that could be occupied by awesomer titles?