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This book is a must have for the beginning writer. It covers the writing rules you must follow to be considered a professional with great examples and exercises. This is the reference book that you’ll mark up and keep with you for your editing. I’m glad I found it.
As a new writer I found this book feels like you're being hit over the head with a ruler. You can tell that the author really doesn't like new writers and this is a desperate attempt at educating them about fiction writing. He gives the impression that unless you’re a REAL artist you should just give it up.
The examples are poor and the exercises are almost useless. I found myself just skimming the book after page 100.
Everything he says about publishers and editors maybe true but it isn’t worth buying the book when you can go to a writers chat board on the web and get the better information for free.
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Andy, February 6, 2008
This book is a must have for the beginning writer. It covers the writing rules you must follow to be considered a professional with great examples and exercises. This is the reference book that you’ll mark up and keep with you for your editing. I’m glad I found it.The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile by Noah Lukeman
Andy, February 6, 2008
As a new writer I found this book feels like you're being hit over the head with a ruler. You can tell that the author really doesn't like new writers and this is a desperate attempt at educating them about fiction writing. He gives the impression that unless you’re a REAL artist you should just give it up.The examples are poor and the exercises are almost useless. I found myself just skimming the book after page 100.
Everything he says about publishers and editors maybe true but it isn’t worth buying the book when you can go to a writers chat board on the web and get the better information for free.
(10 of 12 readers found this comment helpful)