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Helping Writers Become Authors

Ep. 505: 7 Possible Hooks for Your Opening Chapter

Helping Writers Become Authors

K.M. Weiland

Arts

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

In order to grab readers, you'll need to consider several specific types of hooks for your opening chapter. You may want to use one--or all of them.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is K.M. Island and you are listening to the five hundredth fifth episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors podcast.

0:16.3

This episode of Helping Writers Become Authors is brought to you in partnership with Podtone.

0:21.6

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0:24.7

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0:30.8

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0:35.1

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0:38.1

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0:41.6

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0:43.0

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0:46.0

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0:52.0

Last week I took a break from the podcast. to get started today.

0:52.7

Last week I took a break from the podcast

0:55.2

to share on the website an important update

0:58.0

to one of my most popular posts.

1:00.4

A few years ago, I collated and published a list of recommended editors.

1:05.0

I then suggested readers post their own recommendations in the post's comments.

1:10.0

In the intervening years, the comment section grew tremendously, while a few of the originally

1:15.6

published editors went out of business.

1:18.1

So I decided it was high time, I update the post.

1:21.6

If you're on the hunt for an editor you can currently find this

1:25.0

post on the site's homepage just scroll down to the post beneath the one

1:29.4

that corresponds with the podcast or you can access the list at any time

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