WIP: A Writing Update
Writing » Hook, Work-in-ProgressApril 1st, 2008
No April Fool’s today, just a quick shout-out to my mother (it’s her birthday!), an announcement, and a long-overdue post about my WIP.
If you visited the blog recently, you noticed that the WIP counter on my sidebar has suddenly changed from 82k, a mere 3% away from my 85k goal, to 87k. Admission time: I’ve been past the 85k goal since the beginning of March. I didn’t want to change my progress counter until I actually finished First Draft B, which is silly, but true. I haven’t finished it, but I can see the finish line.
The new year cometh
General, Writing » Announcements, Fun, Hook, Websites, Work-in-ProgressJanuary 1st, 2008
Happy new year, everyone! Here’s hoping your muse is kind. Mine favored me at the end of my break from school, the procrastinating little wretch that she is, and I’m now 76% complete with the WIP manuscript! I’ve done a lot of work-shopping on the tagline and the hook. Here’s what I came up with for my WIP, Trentwood’s Orphan…
Miss Snark’s How to Write a Hook
Business, Marketing, Writing » HookDecember 26th, 2006
Taken from Miss Snark, here is the general template on how to make your hook act, read, and seem like an actual hook.
X is the main guy; he wants to do:
Y is the bad guy; he wants to do:
they meet at Z and all L breaks loose.
If they don’t resolve Q, then R starts and if they do it’s L squared.
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