by Lindsay Flanagan | Jul 16, 2014 | Blog, Fiction How-to, The First Page: Hooking Your Reader
by Amy Maida Wadsworth Forget the old adages you’ve heard: In a real race between a tortoise and a hare, the hare would win every time. It’s biology. And what applies to biology applies to writing as well: no one wants to write at tortoise speed or produce a book that...
by Lindsay Flanagan | Jul 2, 2014 | Blog, Fiction How-to
A Strong Premise: Your Story’s Hook by Sabine Berlin with Angela Eschler In part 1 of our articles defining “high concept” and what makes for a bestseller, we listed one requirement as a “hook that’s easy to describe.” Think of the...