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Category: Never Do This Shit

Observational Hierarchy

May 8, 2020 Ren Benton Leave a comment

A decade or so ago, the first five pages of a book caused me so much pterodactyl screeching, I had…

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NDTS: Evil Cousin Alphonse

September 2, 2019 Ren Benton Leave a comment

Years ago, I read a romance novel in which the main characters had basically resolved all their conflicts by the…

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NDTS: Consistently Crappy Sentences

March 10, 2019 Ren Benton Leave a comment

I read a book earlier this month that caused an urge to write a salty email to an editor who…

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Point of View

July 12, 2018 Ren Benton 2 Comments

I recently attended an editing workshop hosted by a trad-pub romance editor who said, “Head hopping is fine! All the…

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No. Just no. All of the no.

July 6, 2018 Ren Benton 4 Comments

I woke up earlier this week to find that all of my spoons were gone. I had to declare spoon…

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Reading Angst

February 18, 2018 Ren Benton 1 Comment

I’ve been having a hard time reading contemporary romance lately, with an 80% didn’t like/didn’t finish rate. These aren’t books…

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Intellectually Challenged to a Nonviable Degree

January 3, 2018 Ren Benton Leave a comment

A couple of weeks ago, I stumbled into a group of writers complaining about the internalized misogyny of reviewers. Many of…

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NDTS: Telling Conflict

April 30, 2017 Ren Benton Leave a comment

The category of Shit Never to Be Done presented today falls under the heading of “show, don’t tell” in the…

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Never Do This Shit

NDTS: Self-description

April 2, 2016 Ren Benton Leave a comment

It’s difficult to learn from excellent writing because excellent writing sucks you into the story and feels effortless and magical…

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