Writing Better Opening Lines

Writing Better Opening Lines

My cool roomie Allison at Mt. Hermon I just returned from a conference in California, where I learned some terrific writing tips. Today’s comes from bestselling novelist Angie Hunt. Writing Tip for Today: How can you craft a better opening line for your fiction? Fill Opening Lines with Tension. This sounds basic but every good […]

Hooks: Great Lines and Sinkers

The writing journey is full of advice about hooking your reader. For an article or essay, a great opening line or a creative approach might constitute a hook. In a novel, revisions to that opening paragraph might be the last thing the author tinkers with, making sure that hook is not only going to grab readers, but […]