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Welcome to the next evolution of The Writers XL.

No longer will our days be plagued by the timeframe of the dreaded "season." No more will we fret over the traditional, worn-down formatting of days long past. Instead, we've opted for tighter, richer, stronger, content-specific rounds of episodes we've dubbed "cycles". Each cycle will feature a different topic that Shelly and L will discuss by digging into their own use of it.

For our flagship topic to take you through this journey of writing and publishing, we bring you hooks.

Hooks (n.) the opening of a narrative--used to capture a reader's attention so to "hook" them into the story.

Shelly and L dive into the highly debated use of hooks in storytelling and engage in a round of fisticuffs over the importance of the element.

Join the discussion! Whose side are you on? Do you have a favorite author who pens exemplary hooks?

Mentioned! @NextBigRecognition @LLSanders 

University of Richard

Richard Thomas is a published author with seven novels and over 150 published short stories under his belt. He's been featured alongside uber-awesome authors such as Roxanne Gay, Neil Gaiman, and NK Jemisin. If you are interested, let me know! If you decide to take one of his online classes, make sure you mention LL Montez because I want him to know how much I appreciate his help in making ARC10 a better book. Link to his 2018/2019 course guide are in the comments --->