Attention-Grabbing Hooks: Stop Readers & Maintain Interest

What would have to be on the COVID of a magazine to make you stop walking and pick it up and look at it? That should be your opening hook, right? I know. People are like, all hook crazy. Like, it's true. You do need a good hook, right? So how do I grab someone's attention with some kind of pattern interrupting thought? But I think, how do I earn it and how do I maintain it? So with my writing, there's always a sense of urgency. I'm concerned the person's going to get bored and swipe away or just, you know, close out their inbox or something. I respect that so much that I'm just. It's verbal hook information. I'm almost, like, anxious that you're about to, like, just stop reading my content. And I just make sure that it flows that way. So when I'm coaching people, I'm like, no one owes you their attention. They got other stuff to do. But if you give them a good story with good information, and if you make them think or act differently afterwards, then you'll be in a good spot. So I. I do my best to make it more cinematic. And that's why there's, like, more grainy details sometimes than you might expect. But when I'm teaching people, that's what I help them do.