Chapter 41. Write on

This chapter begins by asserting that authors should pay special attention to crafting specific components of their writing to engage the reader - including ‘hookers’ (a term coined by Stephen King to describe the opening line of a work) and titles. It then offers the reader an original ‘fabled … fabulous [and] failsafe 5-G communications framework’ that covers resources and recommendations for authors when approaching writing. The ‘framework comprises the following, fortuitously alliterative checklist: guide books; genre rules; grunt work; guard dogs; and, glorious gratification. It takes gratuitously grandstanding hyperbole as a given, since more than a few academic careers have been built on it. Present company included. But moving swiftly on, let’s get this g-string started.’