I started the discussion about Writing Strong Hook Sentences yesterday. You can read the post here.
It's a skill anyone can master.
5. By name dropping. We're a celebrity culture.
Most written content requires a strong hook sentence to pull the reader in, and to make a reader keep reading.
You don't want a reader to shut the book and try another one. You want a blog reader to dive in and stay on your blog.
5 Ways to Write Strong Hook Sentences
1. Make a startling or compelling statement. Follow it with something that hits an emotional hot button.
2. Begin by evoking an emotional reaction in the reader.
1. Make a startling or compelling statement. Follow it with something that hits an emotional hot button.
2. Begin by evoking an emotional reaction in the reader.
Make them laugh, cry, afraid, angry, disgusted, or curious. Whatever reaction you elicit, make sure it has a universality which gets the same response from someone in Texas or someone in London or Prague.
We are all basically the same human animal once you remove the trappings of our respective cultures. What makes me cry, more than likely makes someone in Tokyo cry. Emotion is what sticks with a reader from the first word to the last.
There are millions who will stop to read a blog with a clickbait title like, "Kim Kardashian gives fashion advice to female prison inmates."
But they'll ignore, "High school home economics teacher gives fashion advice to female inmates."
TAKEAWAY TRUTH
"Chris Evans was my first movie crush which explains why all the losers I dated looked like him—one even had the shield which he brought on our first date—but in the end, none of them turned out to be a Captain America."
That's more interesting than "An actor was my first movie crush which explains why all the losers I dated looked like him. Etc."
These are just 5 ways that work. Study books on writing, and you'll learn other ways.
TAKEAWAY TRUTH
Sometimes you have to write and experiment to get the words write. Don’t look at your words as if they're carved in stone. Be willing to write until the hook sentence really does hook the reader.
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