this video is sponsored by lord of maps but more about them at the end of the video okay so today we are bringing back dear authors so dear authors is a series that i started on my channel a long time ago and it ran for a long time uh the concept is i post a community tab asking my subscribers what do you i ask my subscribers about a particular topic in books what do you like what don't you like what's some executions that work for you some that don't and the whole idea of the dear author series is readers chatting with readers about what we love and don't love to see in books i did this series for a while and then i kind of got fatigued with it and i cancelled it but i've been missing it lately i think it's partially how much of a community project your authors was all of us being able to communicate and participate and chat together and i think the other part of it is just how much we got to do a deep dive into different topics i had so much fun created creating them and i've been going back and forth for a couple of months do i bring this series back or don't i and i decided to just take the plunge so here we are let's talk about hooks so i was hesitant to start on hooks because i've done beginnings before but i wanted to begin at the beginning as we're starting up dear authors again i wanted to start at the beginnings of a book and plus the hook is a little bit different from beginnings because it narrows it in not just the whole beginning of the book but really the moment of the story that grabs us that where we go from being a casual reader to needing to read more the book can't go on until we have answers sometimes that happens in the first chapter sometimes that happens a little ways down the road my bookshelves are a bit of a mess right now and that's because i pulled some books that i think have amazing hooks and as i read through comments i'm gonna do my best to give some physical real-life examples as well if this is a little rough please forgive me i'm out of practice for the series but i am so excited to bring it back so i've gone through the comments of my community tab where i asked for great and terrible hooks what you like what you don't like to see i've grabbed the ones that were the most upvoted as well as the ones that i felt were being repeated the most and we're going to discuss them here the hook for me is when a question arises that i just need to have answered this can be a mystery in the plot or a character with a secret that's kept from the reader but i love when a story has an unknown that keeps coming up that i'm dying to have answered i think in general this is true i think that the moment a story often times hooks people is when we see the thing when we see the thing that the story is about or what it's going to lead to or the first threads of it or if we just see something strange or unique that's happening here that really sets the story apart that's oftentimes at least for me where i really get connected to the story and have to know more one instance where i
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