The Series' Hook.

No writer can refute the importance of a good hook. In a book, a movie, a speech or a term paper, the hook will propel your reader through the finish line. That is, after all, the key to getting fans who'll lust after more of your work. If you're a one-book-a-story type of writer, well, then maybe it's not as important. Writing style plays its part in fan lust, of course, but what I'm getting at is just how much more important a hook is when it comes to laying out a story over multiple tomes.

I haven't really given the hook to my book "Kray" much consideration until recently, when I realized that this shan't be merely a hook to one story, one book--this will be the hook to a whole series. More than that...

Multiple series.

Kray is one of seven siblings, meaning seven damn books that are all train cars in the same storyline.  And that's just the one o'clock train. Don't forget there's a three o'clock and five o'clock train on the itinerary, too.

And while I realize too that I may be jumping the gun or getting my head stuck in the clouds, I realize my dreams are not far from fruition, and that writing a damn good hook may not just get me publication, but it could ensure my blast into infamy. (I won't be demure about it...I want to be the next J.K. Rowling.)

And I'm on the eve of war, as I've mentioned previously. I'm stuck on a war speech, an impending battle, and a closing, all elements I'm rather unfamiliar with. Can a writer of sex and love write a successful scene of bloodshed and war?

It ain't easy, as I've done a few already. Oddly enough, the sex scenes, too, have me stumped from time to time. But I digress.

This month has not started off right. I've been sick all four days, and oddly enough, not well enough nor with enough brain power to write for any of those days. Four days abed--wasted. So "Kray" is not looking so hot, but there's 25 more days of the month. Let's see what happens. July might have to be a co-JNoFiMo this year.

JLH