by Molly Noble Bull
Remember those birthday party invitations we all got as children? One that I recall had a cowboy on the cover, signaling that the party had a cowboy theme, and I will never forget what was written on the inside of that card. I call the cowboy on the cover […]
Hey Everyone! Happy Fiction Friday! For the last month we’ve been talking about HOOKing the reader you’re your story. I hope you remember the SHARP acronym!
S-Stakes
H – Hero/Heroine Identification
A – Anchoring
R – Staring the story on the RUN
P – The problem or Story question.
Today, I’m going to give you just a handful of examples […]
Hey there! Welcome back to our HOOKS discussion! We’ve been talking about the elements of a great HOOK – using the acrynom SHARP S= Stakes (Public or Private) H = Hero Identification (or Sympathy) A stand for ANCHORING! Or, using the journalist inside to create place!R – Starting your story on the Run, or two […]
Ack! Susan May Warren back after a two week OOPs! where I woke in the middle of the night going…uh oh, I forgot to blog on WI!! Just to catch us up…we were chatting last month about HOOKING your reader.
We talked about: StakesHero/Heroine identificationAnchoring – So – let’s voyage on. Our 4th component […]
Happy Friday~! Susan May Warren here hopping over from http://www.mybooktherapy.com (where we’re talking about Writing Tension in a scene), to continue or Friday Fiction Chat about HOOKS!
We’ve been talking about the elements of a great HOOK – using the acronym SHARP S= Stakes (Public or Private) H = Hero Identification (or Sympathy) A stand for ANCHORING! Or, using […]
Hey! I’m back (thanks for having me!) with more on HOOKS today on Fiction Friday. HOOKing the reader is essential for a great story. Last week, we started our discussion on HOOKS — with the acronym SHARP. The first element of a great hook is STAKES. Today, we’re moving on to: […]
Hey all! I’m so excited to be Writer Interrupted’s Friday Post – thanks for having me! I’m hopping over from http://www.mybooktherapy.com(where we’re talking about Dialogue), to talk to you for a few weeks about…
HOOKS!
Now, it’s fishing season opener pretty soon up here in MN, and we take our fishin’ very seriously…we […]
by Chip MacGregor
Find a place. Make this your writing space and designate it as your office. (If you’re serious about this, make that your official home office and start looking into the tax deduction you can get from the IRS for establishing a home office.)
Establish a writing time. Having a block of time dedicated to […]
What is My Book Therapy and why do you spend your time telling everyone your secrets?
The answer to the first question is easy: My Book Therapy is two things – a daily writing blog about craft and storytelling. My Book Therapy is also the gateway to a forum/community of fellow writers who help each […]
What a wonderful response to this blog post. Due to comment moderation glitches all the comments were in moderation, but are now posted and will respond to the rest of the posts tonight! And remember the drawing for Lecture Packet will be 9PM Mountain Time?
Margie Lawson is a psychologist, hypnotherapist, presenter, and writer—teaches on-line […]
