Dara Kaye
Literary Agent
Ross Yoon Agency
Literary Agent at @RossYoon. @smithcollege, @UCL, & @FulbrightPrgrm alum. Mom to a two-year-old chaos muppet.
Dara Kaye
@DaraKaye
Literary Agent
Literary Agent at @RossYoon .
@smithcollege , @UCL , & @FulbrightPrgrm alum.
Mom to a two-year-old chaos muppet.
33 MSWL
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Dara Kaye @DaraKaye
Been thinking more about takeaways from last weekend's #CHESAWW writers conferenceThis pic is from Saturday afternoon, the "First Pages Panel", where first pages of unpublished works were read aloud anonymously to a panel of literary agents.
(NB: all works were fiction.) 1/x twitter.com/M_L_Webber/sta…
After pages were read, agents said where/why they would have stopped reading.
Some patterns quickly emerged. The top 2:
1. Many pages started with way too much description. Clothes, curtains, weather. Nothing's happening. Agents wanted more action.
#writingtips #querytip 2/x
Dara Kaye
@DaraKaye
Literary Agent
Literary Agent at @RossYoon .
@smithcollege , @UCL , & @FulbrightPrgrm alum.
Mom to a two-year-old chaos muppet.
33 MSWL
11 Tips