…o submit, therefore there are more submissions. We skim through them like a gardener pulling weeds. You still have to write a good hook, but these days you also have to create an attention funnel that guides the editor’s eyes all the way from the inbox to your actual words.

The “Hook” Is an Outdated Writing Concept
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