Excerpt From - Chuck Wendig. “500 Ways To Write Harder.”“Reading this book will not make you a better writer.I’m supposed to tell you differently. I’m supposed to say, THIS BOOK IS 156% GUARANDAMNTEED TO MAKE YOU 478% BETTER AS A WRITER. I’m supposed to assure you that, upon the conclusion of you reading this book, you will be so filled with the breath of the Muse that it’s like rolling a natural 20 in D&D or getting a Get Out Of Jail Free card in that shitty game, Monopoly. I should be promising you that it will make you be a better writer, storyteller, publisher, marketer, blogger, thinker, word-herder, penmonkey, and overall biblio-champion. It will, were I to lie, make you a better lover, a better human, a better spiritual entity.It’s all horseshit.This book is just an agglomeration of ideas. A sticky, uncertain, sometimes counter-intuitive and contrary agglomeration of ideas.This book isn’t magic.It won’t make you better.It’s not a pill. It’s not an unguent. It’s not a storytelling suppository.It is both passive and inert.If you’re going to become a better writer – if you are going to, as the name of this book suggests, write harder – than[…]”