Hook, Line, and Reader by Gabriel Valjan

 

What hooks you into an idea enough sothat you want to write it? Character, setting, plot, genre?

In his Acknowledgments in Bound forGold, author William Martin discussed his first foray into screenwriting atmy alma mater, the University of Southern California, and he said somethingabout writing that I believe is worth the block quote.

Though I had little writing experience, I hadalready rejected the advice that you should write what you know. I believed then,as I do n...