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How to Hook Your Reader
with John David Anderson
2025-03-11 11:00:00
2025-03-11 12:30:00
America/Indiana/Indianapolis
How to Hook Your Reader
Have you ever picked up a book in the bookstore, read the first paragraph, and then put it right back on the shelf? Readers need to be hooked from the start, but many authors find beginnings challenging.
Irvington Branch -
Tuesday, March 11
11:00am - 12:30pm
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2025-03-11 11:00:00
2025-03-11 12:30:00
America/Indiana/Indianapolis
How to Hook Your Reader
Have you ever picked up a book in the bookstore, read the first paragraph, and then put it right back on the shelf? Readers need to be hooked from the start, but many authors find beginnings challenging.
Irvington Branch -
Have you ever picked up a book in the bookstore, read the first paragraph, and then put it right back on the shelf? Readers need to be hooked from the start, but many authors find beginnings challenging.
Join us as we take a look at what makes for an effective opening sentence/paragraph/page, analyzing examples, discussing options, and then trying our hand at fashioning these little barbs ourselves.
This workshop is presented in partnership with the Indiana Writers Center. Check out other writing workshops at library branches this spring!
Get your creative juices flowing with this Creative Writing Inspiration list. or consider these Best Books for the Aspiring Novelist.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Class/Workshop |
TAGS: | Writing | Meet an Author, Be an Author |
Irvington Branch
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About the branch
This branch has served the Irvington community since 1903 when the Bona Thompson Library was donated to Butler College and soon became a public library branch. Following relocations in 1914 and 1921, a new facility was built on East Washington Street in 1956 and named for Irvington’s distinguished citizen, Hilton U. Brown. The Brown Branch closed its doors in 2001 to make way for the current 16,000-square-foot Irvington Branch that opened later that year.