Posts Tagged ‘hook lines’
Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble
Posted by: Kirsten Imani Kasai on: December 4, 2009
- In: writing
- 2 Comments
At my editor’s suggestion, I’ve bumped a scene from way back around chapter 20 to the very front of the book. She’s right, it is a stellar opening line and much more effectively sets the scope for the entire adventure in Tattoo. But that leaves me with scads of cutting, pasting, rewriting and reimagining to [...]
Going Up! Honing the Elevator Pitch
Posted by: pageadaywriters on: December 1, 2009
- In: 1
- 4 Comments
Some call it the elevator pitch; others know it as the log line or hook line. It’s that all-important summary, the one every novelist — published and unpublished — is suppose to rattle off at the drop of a hat. All of us struggle to write it, memorize it and practice saying it. Those few [...]
Who are we?
