Writing Engaging Openings

how to hook and grab your readers’ attention

Elise L. Blake
Writer’s Daily Digest
4 min readJan 22, 2024

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Wherever you get your writing advice, one of the first things you are going to hear or read is going to be that you need a hook right in the very first sentence of your story to grab your reader’s attention.

But what does this mean and how do you do it?

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Elise L. Blake
Writer’s Daily Digest

Full-time writing coach and novelist. Elise is a recent college graduate where she earned her BA in Creative Writing.