The First Five Pages
Subtitle: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile
By: [by] Noah Lukeman
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 207
Subjects: Openings (Rhetoric); Authorship
Notes: "A Fireside Book."
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: 11
label: Introduction; label: Part I: Preliminary Problems; title: 21
label: Chapter 1: Presentation; title: 31
label: Chapter 2: Adjectives and Adverbs; title: 41
label: Chapter 3: Sound; title: 53
label: Chapter 4: Comparison; title: 64
label: Chapter 5: Style; label: Part II: Dialogue; title: 75
label: Chapter 6: Between the Lines; title: 84
label: Chapter 7: Commonplace; title: 91
label: Chapter 8: Informative; title: 101
label: Chapter 9: Melodramatic; title: 108
label: Chapter 10: Hard to Follow; label: Part III: The Bigger Picture; title: 119
label: Chapter 11: Showing Versus Telling; title: 127
label: Chapter 12: Viewpoint and Narration; title: 136
label: Chapter 13: Characterization; title: 151
label: Chapter 14: Hooks; title: 159
label: Chapter 15: Subtlety; title: 165
label: Chapter 16: Tone; title: 170
label: Chapter 17: Focus; title: 178
label: Chapter 18: Setting; label: Chapter 19: Pacing and Progression; title: 195
label: Epilogue; title: 199
label: Index