2018 Literary Agent Analysis – Genre Edition
The elusive literary agent: who they are, what genres they prefer, and what does it take for them to love me. Okay, maybe not the latter.
Category: Writing Style
More Than Words
Show vs. Tell: Overexplaining and hand-holding are not the words I want to hear from you.
Don’t tell; show me the glint of light of my burning novel.
Show, don’t tell is the number one rule of writing. Seriously, how often you do stuff without knowing the number one rule of it?
Everyone’s a Critic
When classic novels get harsh reviews, and even fake writers are chastised, your book will definitely have more than its share of criticism. Or to be more formal, haters gonna hate.
He thought; therefore, he was.
Writing can be tense and personal – or how I accidentally wrote a book in first person and present tense.
C. Hofsetz 