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I’m about to tell you one of the most important things you’ll ever learn as a writer: Agents, acquisitions editors, and magazine editors can determine (with greater than 90 percent accuracy) if a manuscript was written by a seasoned professional, a semiprofessional, or an amateur after reading as little as the first sentence and at most the first paragraph. The vast majority of manuscripts are rejected before the agent or editor gets to the bottom of the first page.