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The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile

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By: Noah Lukeman
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Publisher: Fireside
Pub. Date: 1st January 2005
Catalog: Book
Media: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 208
Ean: 9780684857435
Isbn: 068485743X

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USER REVIEWS

About 50/50
~ Written on Apr 25, 2008. out of 1 users found this review helpful.

It's worth buying if nothing else. But if you have any experience under your belt, some of the information will be givens to you.

Fair warning.

Wolfe

Wow... time to rewrite...
~ Written on Apr 14, 2008. out of users found this review helpful.

If you never want to do another rewrite DON't BUY THIS BOOK - if you want to get published and be professional - buy 2 copies! Great book, enough said.

Intelligence Report for Authors - Top Sacred
~ Written on Feb 26, 2008. out of users found this review helpful.

This book goes beyond telling authors what to look for and correct to get agents to pick their manuscript from the many, but it reveals the secrets to create superb writing period. It goes beyond the first five pages. It takes you to the final credits on good writing that sits well with those that publish.

If you don't know the difference between a comma and a semicolon
~ Written on Feb 20, 2008. out of 2 users found this review helpful.

or if you're in the sixth grade, you might need this book. Trite, silly, so basic and ridiculous, it's insulting. Maybe if it were the least bit well written, it might be sort of worth it. But, please, let me SHOW you rather than TELL you what I mean.

The first sentence of chapter 4 (Comparison) reads: "A picture is worth a thousand words..." No, I'm not kidding. He wrote that. Then, I choose this from many, many examples of bad grammar, only because it's in the same paragraph: "Comparison is one of the few devices that really put (sic) a writer's skill in the spotlight...." Turn the page for this bit of poorly phrased wisdom: "Bad or cliche comparisons jump off the page. They indicate imprecision or laziness in searching for the right picture....If a writer doesn't care enough about his work to paint precisely the right picture, why should the reader waste his time reading it?"
My point. Exactly.

A must have for any writer!!
~ Written on Feb 2, 2008. out of users found this review helpful.

I so loved this book. I have read it twice, and will keep it for a reference.

Problems found in writing are grouped in chapters. I. preliminary problems: presentation, adjectives and adverbs, sounsd, comparison, style, II dialogue: between the lines, comonplace, informative, melodramatic, hard to follow, III. the bigger picture: showing versus telling, viewpoint and narration, characterization, hooks, subtlety, tone, focus, setting, and pacing and progression. Solutions are given to problems and exercises are presented at the end of each chapter.

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