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How to Add a “Secret” Ingredient to Your Story Premise

How to Add a “Secret” Ingredient to Your Story Premise

July 10, 2023

Your story premise needs to be compelling if you want to entice readers and keep them reading your book. Premise…

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What Story Hooks Are All About

What Story Hooks Are All About

February 13, 2023

If you’ve been writing fiction awhile, you’ve probably heard the term “hook.” What is a hook all about anyway? It’s…

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How to Hook Readers and Reel Them into Your Scenes

How to Hook Readers and Reel Them into Your Scenes

May 24, 2018

We toss around the word hook when we talk about stories. What’s the hook? we ask. Sometimes we’re talking about the…

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Scene Structure: Opening Hooks

Scene Structure: Opening Hooks

February 11, 2016

For this week’s Throwback Thursday, we’re looking at excerpts from past posts on Live Write Thrive that tie in with…

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Hook ‘Em on the First Cast

Hook ‘Em on the First Cast

March 14, 2012

If you look at your first page checklist , you’ll see that the first three elements I discussed last week—introduction…

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