how to figure out your novel hook, part two

cross-posted to Tribal Writer


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In my last blog entry I talked about finding your novel 'hook' -- the one or two sentence description that strikes at the heart of your story and sells it to the right reader.

It's useful to work this out early because it forces you to hone your sense of the story that you want to tell, in a way that helps you tell it.

It's hard to find the center of a completed manuscript if there's no center there to begin with.

You want to make sure you put the 'there' there....