Jackson Dean Chase - Writing Dynamite Story Hooks: A Masterclass in Genre Fiction and Memoir

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Welcome, friend, to the Ultimate Authors Guide to Writing Dynamite Story Hooks. This is an expanded edition of my breakthrough bestseller, How to Start your Novel, with new ways to hook readers, new story secrets, and even more examples from the greatest authors of yesterday and today.

How much new stuff is there? Well, this edition is fifty pages longer than the first, so Id say a lot! Ive increased the number of successful ways to begin your story from seven to ten, restored original material cut for space, and included examples for all these genres:

• Crime/Hardboiled/Noir
• Fantasy
• Historical Fiction
• Memoir
• Mystery/Suspense/Thriller
• Romance
• Science Fiction
• Young Adult

This book covers the top 10 ways successful authors hook readers. All smart, powerful stuff. I lay it all out for you in easy to learn examples with a fun, casual tone in my comments. The first things well cover is how to hook with:

1. Action
2. Dialogue
3. Hero or Sidekick
4. Meeting
5. Monologue
6. Mystery
7. Premonition
8. Profound Statement
9. Setting
10. Villain or Victims

After you learn the top 10 ways to hook readers, were going to cover the top 10 ways to lose readers:

1. Antiquated Writing Style, Foreign Language, or Technobabble
2. Correspondence or Diary
3. Dream or Flashback
4. Nothing Happens
5. Phone Call
6. Prologue or Frame
7. Telling or Info-Dumping
8. Unlikable or Flat Hero
9. Waking Up
10. Weather

I know some of you are stubborn and will want to use the wrong ways no matter what. Thats why Im going to show you how to break the rules and make the wrong ways work. When you add the fixed versions, youre really getting twice as many successful hooks!

This is book is for anyone serious about the craft of writing fictionfrom short stories to novels, even memoir. Which reminds me, the memoir section has been totally revised and expanded, making it much more useful to nonfiction authors. It even has ideas for celebrity memoirsand ideas you can take from them to write your own.

Theres another added benefit to expanding the memoir section: Because most memoirs begin with interior monologue, this essentially doubles the number of ideas and excerpts for how novelists can hook fiction readers with their characters thoughts and feelings.

At this point in my career, Ive written over thirty books, won and been nominated for multiple awards, and hit the USA TODAY bestseller list. Writing Dynamite Story Hooks condenses all my years of experience into one fun to read, easy to learn from guidea masterclass I know will inspire you to write bestsellers of your own.

Being an author is my dream and Im living it.

Its a hell of a ride.

Now its your turn. Take the journey with me.

Do it.

Do it now.

Dont look back.

Jackson Dean Chase

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The first words on the page are the hardest you'll ever write. It's easy to get overwhelmed by choices. How do bestselling authors do it? That's what I set out to discover. I tore apart my library, scouring the openings to hundreds of my favorite novels and short stories to see what makes them work and why. And do you know what I found? A patterna secret formula authors use time and time again to deliver powerful, bestselling results. And do you know what else?

• Genre doesn't matter.
• Point of view doesn't matter.
• It works for novels, novellas, and short stories.
• It works for series or standalone books.
• It even works for memoirs.

So what is the secret formula?

The secret is in the storys opening line and how you construct it to hook readers into wanting more. A story hook is a literary technique that grabs readers' attention. Usually, the hook is in the first line, but sometimes it's in the second. More rarely, it only becomes evident after reading the first paragraph or two. It depends on the story the author is telling and what effect they're trying to achieve. The longer you delay your hook, the more likely readers are to stop reading, so never delay your hook longer than necessary!

The formula in this book will teach you how to write killer hooksthe kind that get noticed by agents, editors, and readers. My formula contains ten sure-fire ways successful authors use to open their stories and ten ways unsuccessful authors use.

Were there exceptions? Of course, but I quickly found the pattern and unlocked that secret formula too. I learned that in skilled hands, some of the wrong ways can actually be turned into the right ways (but it's tricky, and not always done the way you think).

In this breakthrough book, Im going to reveal all these secrets and more in an unbeatable quick and dirty system that will take your writing to the next level. I break down how and why each way succeeds or fails with clear examples from bestselling fiction that show you how the formula works.

How to Write Dynamite Story Hooks is an easy to read, easy to use toolkit designed to be your go to guide every time you start a new story. Let's face it: in today's tough market, we all need an edge.

This book is the secret weapon you've been waiting for!

Jackson Dean Chase

www.JacksonDeanChase.com