This article is by Craig W. Van Sickle & Steven Long Mitchell.
While novels, graphic novels, television or motion picture scripts each present writers with different formats, narrative challenges and audience expectations, they all have one very simple commonality at their heart: telling a great story that hooks, pulls in and holds its consumer.
Simple, right? Well, as they say in novel writing circles, if writing were easy, everyone would be Stephen King.
Truth is, no matter what medium, defining and learning how to hook your audience can actually be very simple if we just break down the elements of storytelling into small, manageable segments.
