The Write Wild Opening Hook

The Write Wild Opening Hook

Your first page doesn't need to explain your story. It needs to make the reader want the next one.

The Write Wild Opening Hook is a practical guide to creating the kind of opening that makes a reader — or an agent — want to keep reading.

Because a hook isn't just a clever first sentence.

It's the question you create in the reader's mind. The feeling that something is unresolved. A contradiction. A shift. A distinctive voice. A piece of information that's missing. Something that makes putting the book down feel harder than carrying on.

Inside, you'll discover six different ways to hook a reader and learn how to recognise which one your story needs.

You'll explore where your story really begins, how writers accidentally kill a brilliant hook by explaining too much, and how to create curiosity without leaving your reader confused.

You'll also work through The Question You Refuse to Answer, a practical exercise that helps you find the most intriguing question in your opening — and resist answering it too soon.

Then put your opening through the First Page Field Test, looking at tension, voice, movement, curiosity, unnecessary backstory and that all-important final line.

Whether you're about to write your opening or have rewritten Chapter One seventeen times, this guide will help you see it differently.

Not by making it louder.

By making it harder to leave.

£9 · Instant download · Practical exercises + First Page Field Test



Make them need the next page.