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 ...
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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: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile 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 - 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 will help writers at every stage take their art to a higher - and more successful - level.
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Noah Lukeman's book is very helpful for aspiring writers. He helps you to make it past the Assistant To the literary agent. The Assistant To's job is to read all the queries, all the synopsis and sample chapters and then recommend .1% to the agent. The Assistant To has a tremendous reading load and because of this is inclined to reject, reject, reject to get through the pile.
Lukeman's book tells you the techniques the Assistant To uses to quickly and efficiently do the initial screening. He does this with clarity and directness.
Aspiring writers are a huge market for "how to"
advice. This advice seems to have fallen into a pattern which is repeated over and over again. In my opinion Lukeman's book is well done and useful. By the way, my favorite rejection was, "Alas, it's not for us. So sorry."
