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    NaNoWriMo: A Cheater's Guide: Write Better Books, #1
    NaNoWriMo: A Cheater's Guide: Write Better Books, #1
    NaNoWriMo: A Cheater's Guide: Write Better Books, #1
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    NaNoWriMo: A Cheater's Guide: Write Better Books, #1

    By Laura Roberts

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    Never won National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) before? Struggling to figure out what you're doing wrong?

    You need to start cheating.

    Your mother may have told you that "cheaters never win, and winners never cheat," but put that bunkum aside.

    Winners work the system.

    Winners use the tools to their own advantage.

    Winners never stop writing.

    And winners sure as hell don't believe that writing "The End" just because you hit 50K means you wrote a successful novel.

    The Cheater's Guide to NaNoWriMo will hold your hand through all of the tips, tricks, cheats and hacks you'll need to finally finish that novel, get it off your hard drive, and publish it where real people can actually read it.

    You may not become the next Stephen King, but you WILL finish your novel and win NaNoWriMo this year.

    Ready to learn how? Join the Cheaters and beat the system.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherButtontapper Press
    Release dateSep 13, 2015
    ISBN9781524230968
    NaNoWriMo: A Cheater's Guide: Write Better Books, #1
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    Laura Roberts

    Laura Roberts can leg-press an average-sized sumo wrestler, has nearly been drowned off the coast of Hawaii, and tells lies for a living. She is the founding editor of Black Heart Magazine, the San Diego Chapter Leader for the Nonfiction Authors Association, and publishes whatever strikes her fancy at Buttontapper Press. She currently lives in an Apocalypse-proof bunker in sunny SoCal with her artist husband and their literary kitties, and can be found on Twitter @originaloflaura. Blurring the lines between fact and fiction, Laura has penned the alphabetical travel guides Montreal from A to Z and San Diego from A to Z, offbeat writing guides A Cheater’s Guide to NaNoWriMo and Confessions of a 3-Day Novelist, and the satirical adventure tale, Ninjas of the 512. She is also the editor of the collection Haiku for Lovers, and the forthcoming anthology Everything I Need to Know About Love I Learned from Pop Songs (February 2016).

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