SIX OF THE WORST… ways you can ruin an otherwise-good idea for a genre fiction story

Posted on November 6, 2014 by Josh Roseman

It’s NaNoWriMo time, when thousands of people try to bang out a 50,000-word novel in 30 days and then start submitting it to publishers without any editing or peer-critiquing, and then getting butthurt on the internet when their stories don’t sell.

Read my first NaNoWriMo column, SIX OF THE WORST… ways you can ruin an otherwise-good idea for a genre fiction story, over at Nerdery Public.
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About Josh Roseman

Josh Roseman (not the trombonist; the other one) has been published in -- among others -- Asimov's, Escape Pod, and Evil Girlfriend Media. He's published two short-story collections, THE CLOCKWORK RUSSIAN and BOSS FIGHT, as well as a novel, AFTER THE APOCALYPSE. When not writing, he mostly complains that he's not writing. Find him online at roseplusman.com, or on Twitter @listener42.
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