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    How to Handle Hooks

    By Kat Duncan

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    What is a hook and how can you use it in your stories? Whether you've never heard of hooks or have been writing hooks for years, this book will take you through the whole gamut of ways to write hooks and use them effectively. You will learn how to evaluate and create hooks for all kinds of uses in your fiction writing, with a focus on hooking readers in the crucial story opening. The information in this book goes well beyond the opening hook, showing ways to hook readers throughout an entire novel. You will learn about ways to generate book titles, make the reader care about what happens next in every scene, build tension and micro-tension with internal hooks, and tie up hooks in a satisfying way. In addition, the book explains how to create hooks for queries and pitches. Practical exercises will help you focus your precious writing time and put your new knowledge right to work.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKat Duncan
    Release dateJun 3, 2014
    ISBN9781310028359
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    How to Handle Hooks
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    Kat Duncan

    Kat Duncan is a creation extremist who is doing her best to identify human creativity and free it from captivity, one student at a time. As a young child, Kat once tried to confess the telling of her stories to her parish priest because she thought they fit the definition the nuns gave for telling a lie. With her lies fully sanctioned and blessed by church authorities, Kat writes stories to entertain and enlighten. She is a Fulbright Scholar who spent a year in West Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Kat has a master's degree in education and over a dozen years of experience teaching students from elementary through college and beyond. Her stories span a range from realistic historicals to quirky suspense. Visit her at: http://www.katduncan.net

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