So, how do you start a story? How do you hook the reader from the very first page? In the literary world, there is a lot of talk about how to write an inciting first line or paragraph, but if you're in the early stages of crafting a story, this advice is useless. There's a step you need to take before you put pen to paper. This step is outlining your story and structuring it in such a way that hooks the reader. And, how do you achieve this? By creating an irresistible story hook.

In this episode, I discuss the first plot point in a story, which is the hook. Before we get started, I would like to point out this episode will contain a few minor spoilers from Sanctus by Simon Toyne. So, spoiler alert. In order to illustrate the effectiveness of an irresistible story hook, I'm going to unpack the scenes leading up to the introduction to the protagonist's ordinary world. Why? So you can see first hand how a reader reacts to his story hook.

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