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The Plot Thickens: 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life
$13.95
From the literary agent and author of the bestselling "The First Five Pages" comes a groundbreaking new book on plot development.
Manuscript Boxes
$12.95
Mail your next book in our sturdy Manuscript Box. White with a tuck flap this gem will protect up to 500 8.5" X 11" pages from the damages of mail travel. Comes in a set of 5 boxes.
Beginnings, Middles, & Ends
$14.99
How to get your stories off to a roaring start, keep them tight and crisp throughout, and end them with a wallop. It's all in here.
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The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile
Noah T. Lukeman
Description
Whether you are a novice writer or a veteran who has already had your work published, rejection is often a frustrating reality. Literary agents and editors receive and reject hundreds of manuscripts each month. While it's the job of these publishing professionals to be discriminating, it's the job of the writer to produce a manuscript that immediately stands out among the vast competition. And those outstanding qualities, says New York literary agent, Noah Lukeman, have to be apparent from the first five pages. The First Five Pages reveals the necessary elements of good writing, whether it be fiction, nonfiction, journalism, or poetry, and points out errors to be avoided such as: A weak opening hook, Overuse of adjectives and adverbs, Flat or forced metaphors or similes, Melodramatic, commonplace, or confusing dialogue, Undeveloped characterizations and lifeless settings, Uneven pacing and lack of progression. With exercises at the end of each chapter, this invaluable reference will allow novelists, journalists, poets, and screenwriters alike to improve their technique as they learn to eliminate even the most subtle mistakes that are cause for rejection. The First Five Pages helps writers at every stage take their art to a higher, and more successful, level.
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