Playing With Fire & Insisting Authors Ignore Agents' Advice

During some rare downtime at the hair salon last week, I saw an article, The Worst Ways to Begin Your Novel: Advice from Literary Agents, while scrolling through Facebook feed. Because it resonated with me, I made a mental note to read it thoroughly in preparation for this post. When I went back and tried to locate it, I found that the excerpts included within it had been shared ad nauseam.


Despite the fact that everyone has seen these pieces of 'advice', I can't shy away from this post becau...