Why Authors Go Wrong, and Other Explanations
By Grant M. Overton
Length4h 49m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: "It seems unlikely that any one will misunderstand the precise subject itself. What, exactly, is meant by an author "going wrong"? The familiar euphemism, as perhaps most frequently used, is anything but ambiguous. Ambiguous-sounding words are generally fraught with a deadly and specific meaning—another illustration of the eternal paradox of sound and sense. But as used in the instance of an author, "going wrong" has a great variety of meanings. An author has gone wrong, for example, when he has deliberately done work under his best; he has gone wrong when he has written for sentimental or æsthetic reasons and not, as he should, for money primarily; he has gone wrong when he tries to uplift or educate his readers; he has gone wrong when he has written too many books, or has not written enough books, or has written too fast or not fast enough, or has written what he saw and not what he felt, or what he felt and not what he saw, or posed in any fashion whatsoever."
Audiobook details
GenreBusiness and Economics, Other
Length4 hrs 49 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 27, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1I WHY AUTHORS GO WRONG
5V LITERARY EDITORS, BY ONE OF THEM
2II A BARBARIC YAWP
6VI WHAT EVERY PUBLISHER KNOWS
3III IN THE CRITICAL COURT
7VII THE SECRET OF THE BEST SELLER
4IV BOOK “REVIEWING”
8VIII WRITING A NOVEL
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