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By Noah Lukeman

ISBN-10: 0709064845

ISBN-13: 9780709064848

IF YOU'RE uninterested in REJECTION, this can be THE e-book FOR YOU.

Whether you're a beginner author or a veteran who has already had your paintings released, rejection is usually a challenging truth. Literary brokers and editors obtain and reject hundreds and hundreds of manuscripts every month. whereas it's the activity of those publishing execs to be discriminating, it's the activity of the author to provide a manuscript that instantly stands proud one of the great festival. and people awesome features, says big apple literary agent Noah Lukeman, need to be obvious from the 1st 5 pages.

The First 5 Pages finds the mandatory parts of fine writing, no matter if it's fiction, nonfiction, journalism, or poetry, and issues out error to be shunned, such as

* A vulnerable starting hook
* Overuse of adjectives and adverbs
* Flat or pressured metaphors or similes
* Melodramatic, standard or complicated dialogue
* Undeveloped characterizations and dead settings
* asymmetric pacing and shortage of progression

With routines on the finish of every bankruptcy, this worthwhile reference will permit novelists, reporters, poets and screenwriters alike to enhance their procedure as they learn how to do away with even the main sophisticated errors which are reason for rejection. the 1st 5 Pages can assist writers at each degree take their artwork to a better -- and extra profitable -- point.

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