5/28/2023 0 Comments She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper![]() This isn’t typical of my reading choices, but I was drawn to it when I read that it won the 2018 Edgar Award for Best First Novel. ![]() Is not going to be a Sunday afternoon picnic kind of a story. President of the Aryan Steel prison gang. That hook describes Crazy Craig Hollington, Today I’m highlighting the opening sentenceĪnd knife scars.” ~ first sentence in She ![]() Learn what makes a great hook and what doesn’t. Most of the time, I find that the opening sentence or paragraph is an invitation to a place or time I’ve never been – like a murder scene, the life of a person making a gut-wrenching decision, the colonial days in America, or perhaps the home front or battlefields of a great war. Tell by the first sentence if I’m starting to read a book that I’ll finish. The “hook” can be more than just the opening line or paragraph, I can usually Months, you know that I’m fascinated by the opening lines of novels. Novel.” For instance, a romance novel should not begin with the gory details ofĪ murder. Think carefully about your genre for the hook that draws readers into your ![]() Certainly, you want an interesting opening. Point is that your reader should never be misled for the sake of an enticingīeginning. Your Novel” on the Southern Writers: Suite T blog on December 19, 2018: Stated in the closing paragraph of her post, “How to Set the Right Tone for Writing about a story’s hook, Karen Cogan ![]()
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