Hooks

[kathleenfoucart]

Two weeks after I got knocked out with what I'm fairly certain was the flu, I'm finally feeling more normal. Still coughing and have a little bit of a sore throat sometimes, but my brain has (mostly) un-fogged, so I feel like I'm getting something accomplished

Comments

[jessica_shea]

This is really interesting! I do think it's an easier go if you have a strong hook - but you'd need the characters/world-building/plot/writing to back that up of course. I've never thought of myself as someone who thinks of hooks first, but both this series & next do have pretty strong ones. And Garolass didn't, and was much harder to sum up in a pitch...I wonder if it can be a matter of FOCUS as much as a hook - really knowing what it is your story is about and being able to synthesize it into a sentence or two?

[kathleenfoucart]

That's really interesting. The idea of focus is a good one, though I worry that with my current writing methods I don't know my story quite that well until years after I start it, you know? Like, the Snow White pitch is something I've come up with nearly 3 years after starting Gen's story. Maybe it's kind-of like synopsis writing for me-- hard to get that kind of distance. I wonder how I work on finding that kind of focus. Hmmm....