The Two Percent Rule

You have a better chance of being bitten by a rattlesnake while you are on top of the Empire State Building, than getting your manuscript past the junior editor at a publishing house.

98 percent of all submitted manuscripts are rejected.

This is good news.

All you have to do is put yourself in the two percent. 

Readers see crimson, taste saltwater, feel course sand between their toes and hear the rush of waves pounding on the shore.

You can learn how to avoid the mistakes that identify you as an amateur.

Amateur writers back into sentences.

Amateur writers use two words when one will do.

Amateur writers use intensifiers, adverbs and adjectives.