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The difference between The First Five Pages and most books on writing is that the others are written by teachers and writers. This one comes from a literary agent--one whose clients include Pulitzer Prize nominees, New York Times best-selling authors, Pushcart Prize recipients and American Book Award winners. Noah Lukeman is not trying to impart the finer points of writing well. He wants to teach you "how to identify and avoid bad writing" so that your manuscript doesn't come boomeranging back to you in that self-addressed and stamped envelope. Surprise: agents and editors don't read manuscripts for fun; they are looking for reasons to reject them. Lukeman has arranged his book "in the order of what I look for when trying to dismiss a manuscript", starting with presentation and concluding with pacing and progression. Each chapter addresses a pitfall of poor writing--overabundance of adjectives and adverbs, tedious or unrealistic dialogue, lack of subtlety--by identifying the problem, presenting solutions, giving examples (one wishes these weren't quite so obvious) and offering writing exercises. It's a little bizarre to think about approaching your work as would an agent, but if you are serious about getting published, you might as well get used to it. Plus, Lukeman has plenty of solid advice worth listening to. Particularly fine are his exercises for removing and spicing up modifiers and his remedies for all kinds of faulty dialogue. --Jane Steinberg
The difference between The First Five Pages and most books on writing is that the others are written by teachers and writers. This one comes from a literary agent--one whose clients include Pulitzer Prize nominees, New York Times best-selling authors, Pushcart Prize recipients and American Book Award winners. Noah Lukeman is not trying to impart the finer points of writing well. He wants to teach you "how to identify and avoid bad writing" so that your manuscript doesn't come boomeranging back to you in that self-addressed and stamped envelope. Surprise: agents and editors don't read manuscripts for fun; they are looking for reasons to reject them. Lukeman has arranged his book "in the order of what I look for when trying to dismiss a manuscript", starting with presentation and concluding with pacing and progression. Each chapter addresses a pitfall of poor writing--overabundance of adjectives and adverbs, tedious or unrealistic dialogue, lack of subtlety--by identifying the problem, presenting solutions, giving examples (one wishes these weren't quite so obvious) and offering writing exercises. It's a little bizarre to think about approaching your work as would an agent, but if you are serious about getting published, you might as well get used to it. Plus, Lukeman has plenty of solid advice worth listening to. Particularly fine are his exercises for removing and spicing up modifiers and his remedies for all kinds of faulty dialogue. --Jane Steinberg