Monday, February 18, 2008

GREAT ARTICLE ON CRAFT: HOOKS AND MORE

Anyone familiar with my writing knows how big I am on hooks. First sentence hooks, chapter hooks, scene hooks...all kinds of hooks. Nearly every reader letter I've had (two a day since November 2007) has mentioned "I couldn't put your book down."

In large part, I think that's God's grace on my writing....gotta give the one credit who most deserves it. That said, I think also part of the reason is that I learned (also by God's grace) how to execute strategically placed lines of text to hook readers and keep them reading.

There is a GREAT article on this, and other aspects of crafting fiction here today on historical author Jennifer Hudson Taylor's blog:

Enjoy!

JENNIFER'S BLOG ARTICLE ON GREAT BEGINNINGS

2 comments:

Kim said...

Cheryl,
I couldn't manage to email you from your site, so I'm leaving a comment here. I won a copy of A Soldier's Promise several weeks ago, and I was able to read it this past weekend! I really enjoyed it a lot, and I think the series is going to be a hit! With so many families experiencing deployment right now, I think a lot of folks will be able to relate!

Great book!!

Kim
kimfurd (at) hotmail (dot) com

Hope Chastain said...

Thanks for the link to the great article! It's so neat that she mentioned your book!!!