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Intro
The Rushed Ending
Outside Force Saves the Day
Ending in the Middle
It was All A Dream
Unearned Happy Endings
Unsolved Mysteries
Laugh in the Face of Cannibals
Predictable Endings
Physical Fantasies
Make Your Character Carry Something
7 Writing Techniques so Good they should be Illegal
Write a story about something that happened to you
Sexual Fidelity as Key Morality
Male Friendships
Change the Point of View
Deeply Improbably Contradictions
Contradictory Characters
Chekhov’s Armory
3 Things You Should Do Every Time You Introduce a New Character
The Stereotype
Men In General
1 The Dinner Party Test
How to Make Your Character Likable
Create a Transitional Situation
Plot Based Dialogue
Only a Romantic Option
8 Types of Endings that make Readers say, “I Wasted My Time
The “Everything but the Kitchen Sink” syndrome
Widen the Perception Gap
Give Your Character an Odd Habit
Create a Ticking Clock
Character Voice
2 The Right Person Test
Worldbuilding Vertigo
Create Foils
Foundations of Dialogue
10 Department of Redundancy Department
Inspiration Indigestion
The Aesthetics over Ethics Trap
11 Terrible Ways to Start a Novel
Add a World Event
Dialogue Ventriloquism
Ignorance of the Physical
9 Melodrama
8 Naked Dialogue
10 Worst Lines of Dialogue Ever Written (and how you can do better)
9 Description Blunders that Make Your Book Look Amateurish
Checklist Character Development
“Subtext is Everything” Syndrome
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