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an author owes no obligation in their work other than to write the story they wish to read.
When using this double-hook structure, it’s important to have each hook target two different questions in the narrative.
What makes a prologue necessary is that it introduces an element fundamental to understanding the novel from that point forward in a far more impactful way than exposition would.
The introduction of a problem. The exploration of that problem. The resolution of the problem.
“The best thing you can do for your book is to make sure the first chapter adequately represents the tone of the rest of the chapters, so the book as a whole seems cohesive.”
Fundamentally, tone is less about what happens and more about how you say it.
Most of the time, the hook does one of two things: It causes the reader to ask a question that they wish to know more about. It sets up a controversial statement that they may or may not agree with.
They fall for a host of reasons: economic downturn, infighting, engaging in a land war in Asia, or going against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
Members of the Roman Senate, Brutus and Cassius, removed Caesar from power with twenty-three democratic stabs to the chest,
