GOTTA HOOK THEM NOW! (a rant?)

[kagejim]

This is something I posted on Notebook in Hand, a writers/creativity forum.  Thought I'd share it here.  If you want to join the forum, that would be great, by the way.

I honestly don't get the idea that you have to "hook the reader" in the first few pages of your book.  Well, I do, but I just think that people try too hard to do so.  Starting a

Comments

[infernumflame]

'Tis a quality opinion. And quite right. Honestly, I want to try writing a book that starts off slowly and sets up the world first. Though of course, as I say that, I've got the Conjured World (which more or less does exactly that -- there's a bit of action in the first chapter, but for the most part, it takes its time to introduce stuff).