The Hook

As the air around me settles into the usual apartment fair. I'm thinking about the hook. It's a term in music where a slow start is suddenly ended by loud buoyant sound and continued on in. After the hook you can lead an audience where you want it to go. The hook is a popular mode of gaining listeners.

Bam!

OOOOOHHHH!

Yeeaaah!


The success of the Hook leads to many pop songs having a similar sound. It works. I can tell you from years of public speaking that I've seen the hook in great speakers. I never had the term for it lodged there in my brain though. English majors often talk about hooking the audience in the first sentance of a book, and without it you fail. This makes me think otherwise. Find a point in the line about 45 seconds of reading in and let it scream.

Make it come from nowhere and stop your reader from letting go. Lead them in control their emotions until they realize an hour later that they can't stop reading. But try out that hook. We know other devices of building to a climax then pulling completely out of it and leaving the reader hanging. Just a little more they cry and we breathe to them, follow me and I'll give you everything you're looking for.

Whispering secrets about others and giving a nod in the right direction as well. That's what we know. But lets not forget the hook.

I hate the idea that we must trick people into listening to us, The metaphores all sound like parts of a trap. A KerSNAP! HAHAHAHA I've got you dear reader and I won't let you go. It's so maniacal.

I prefer to let the strength of my ideas and words stand like a monument against the winds of critism, but I know that without knowing the tricks they might as well be an epitaph on a grave that mold has grown over