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The First Five Pages
by Noah Lukeman
An agent on why manuscripts get rejected on page one: presentation, adjectives, dialogue, pacing. Blunt and corrective.
Read it if…
you are submitting and want to survive the first read.
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Skip it if…
you want encouragement.
Try instead: Techniques of the Selling Writer →
Three things you will actually use
- Agents stop early.
- Cut adjectives and adverbs.
- Earn the next page.
Do this first
Edit your first five pages against his list.
Our verdict
Survive page one.
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