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The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile
January 1, 2005, Fireside
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The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile
2005, Fireside
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The First Five Pages
September 30, 2000, Robert Hale Ltd, The Crowood Press
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The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile
2000, Simon & Schuster
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Table of Contents
Introduction.
11
Part I: Preliminary Problems.
Chapter 1: Presentation.
21
Chapter 2: Adjectives and Adverbs.
31
Chapter 3: Sound.
41
Chapter 4: Comparison.
53
Chapter 5: Style.
64
Part II: Dialogue.
Chapter 6: Between the Lines.
75
Chapter 7: Commonplace.
84
Chapter 8: Informative.
91
Chapter 9: Melodramatic.
101
Chapter 10: Hard to Follow.
108
Part III: The Bigger Picture.
Chapter 11: Showing Versus Telling.
119
Chapter 12: Viewpoint and Narration.
127
Chapter 13: Characterization.
136
Chapter 14: Hooks.
151
Chapter 15: Subtlety.
159
Chapter 16: Tone.
165
Chapter 17: Focus.
170
Chapter 18: Setting.
178
Chapter 19: Pacing and Progression.
Epilogue.
195
Index.
199
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"A Fireside Book."
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