On Writing: Beginning with the End

The hook in music is the riff that captures the listener and pulls them into the song, the beat and the experience of the music. It’s what gets you humming the tune days later and what brings listeners back to the artist and thememoriesthey experienced when thatparticularsong was playing. It’s one of the things I love about music.

In writing it’s a little different, but no lessimportant. Creating a hook is built on sentences, one leads to another, and another, and another. From my perspect...