title: Fixing Fiction: A Practical Guide
author: John W Allie
description: John W. Allie has had lots of experience with terrible fiction and has written quite a bit of it himself. He has since sworn off the stuff and hopes that you will, too. His website, johnwallie.com, contains many exciting things including comics, essays, and ebooks.
zlib_text: **THE FIFTH CORRECTION**
  
   **Robert Wingfield**
  
  **THE FIFTH CORRECTION**
  
  This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters and locations are the
  subject of the author’s imagination and any resemblance to actual persons,
  living or dead, locations or objects, existing or existed is purely
  coincidental.
  
  It is sold subject to the condition that it shall not by way of trade or
  otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the
  writer’s prior consent, electronically or in any form of binding or cover
  other than the form in which it is published and without a similar condition
  including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
  Replication or distribution of any part is strictly prohibited without the
  written permission of the  
  copyright holder.
  
  Copyright © 2014-2019 Robert Wingfield
  
  ISBN: 9780463937365
  
  All rights reserved.
  
   **DEDICATION**
  
  To all those friends and relatives who have slipped away too early into
  alternative universes.
  
   **ACKNOW