: Re: Are 'how-to write fiction' books full of it? I built and sold a business during my first decade of adulthood. During that period, I read a lot of business books published by the popular press.

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Sure, you could say this sort of thing about any how-to book.

Just yesterday I saw an ad for a video titled, "How to get your message across in 30 seconds!". In small print it says, "Running time: 45 minutes". Apparently the people who made the video didn't see the irony.

It's a common joke that people who write "how to get rich books" get rich by selling these books, not by doing any of the things that their books say to do. If I was going to read a get-rich-quick book, I'd want to find one that was written by someone who got rich before he wrote the book.

Now that I think of it, you could say the same about any book at all. Some are written by people who really know the subject and who are skilled at conveying this information, and some are written by people with little or no knowledge of the subject and/or who are terrible writers. Some of anything is great and some is junk. In real life, you have to sort out the good from the bad.

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