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Will King
@wking.dev

How do the best stories hook you immediately? I read A LOT of fiction, and it all comes down to the same thing. Engaging stories hook you with one compelling character before introducing anything else that would be a distraction. This rule applies to more than just writing.

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Tim Holman
@aussie.bsky.social

For my top books, it's all about no pages wasted. I feel like if I isolated the thing that made me love my fave books most is that every page something was going on, character development or plotline pretty much.

Phendan
@phen.dev

Good observation. Any exceptions I can think of are of the "what the hell is even going on" variety. The first thing that came to mind for me as a "hook" was the opening 30 seconds of Attack on Titan.

Will King
@wking.dev

Right and it is quick and chaotic then immediately drops you into a single character story. I think of that as a "prologue" which is also an interesting thing to dig into how it fits into the world outside of media.