Agents and your Opening 2 Pages

The Backspace Writers Conference includes two sessions during which a pair of agents listen to your opening two pages.  Here is some of what I learned:

• start with the main story, not a prologue
• make sure you start at the correct spot, with action or some hook that propels the reader past the first paragraph
• don't waste any space in the first two pages on boring dialogue or backstory that can come later
• be careful of switching the Point of View (whose head are we inside?) - keep it consistent
• make sure you show, don't tell when letting us get to know a character!!!!