Anatomy of a Hook
Dates: January 10-16, 2010
Instructor: Natalie J. Damschroder
Cost: FREE to FTHRW
members; $10.00 for all others
Registration Deadline: January 6, 2010
Course Description:
A lot of emphasis is placed nowadays on The Hook. Whether getting the attention of an editor or agent or engaging the reader, hooks are vitally important. Over the last few years, discussion of this element of craft has evolved from hitting all the important elements in the first five pages to packing it into those first few paragraphs. Now, it's all about the killer first line. We sweat over it, change it a hundred times, obsessively compare it to the lines in published books. Huge efforts, for maybe 10 words out of 100,000. This workshop addresses that not only that first grab, but the importance of continually barbed pacing, the anatomy of a hook, and how to pay it off, all with the goal of making the reader never want to put that book down.
About the Instructor:
Natalie J. Damschroder started out a single mother whose main goal was independence. After she got that worked out, she became a banker who fell in love with a stripper, then a pregnant woman left with nothing, who ALSO fell in love with a (different) stripper. Since then, she's been transported to a new dimension that she helped to save twice seduced her favorite actor, had zero-gravity sex on a moon station...oh, and kicked butt as a former NSA operative. And she did all of that in her jammies.
In real life, Natalie has been writing for commercial publication for twelve years. Since publishing her first book with Avid Press in 2000, she has sold seven novels in paperback and e-book, and five novellas and fourteen short stories in e-book, eight of which are also available in a trade paperback collection. She has been a member of RWA since 1996 and has served much of that time on her local chapter's board of directors. She has also volunteered in many capacities with the national organization. Lucky enough to be writing full time, Natalie now writes romantic adventure and paranormal romantic adventure and plans a dynamic and successful career. Her website can be found at nataliedamschroder.com and she blogs at both nataliedamschroder.blogspot.com and gabwagon.com.
How to register:
Fee: FTHRW Members: FREE; FTHRW Non-Members:
$10.00
Click here to register
before January 6, 2010.
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