Fishing, for real

I have written about how writing for an audience (which I suppose we all do, even if there is only an audience of one!) is like fishing, you’re trying to catch not just your readers to begin with by them choosing your book,, your blog, your tweet, but by keeping them hooked until you reel them into your conclusion. We have to have some sort of lure, book cover, blurb, tag and we have to have some tempting bait, and offer the suggestion that there is more to come if only they follow the trail, What we don’t want is for the lure not even to be noticed, or disregarded, the bait spat out, the trail of tempters to not be tempting, and our audience taking them selves off the hook through disinterest or boredom (at the best, annoyance and dislike at the worst!)

My dad was a fisherman since being a boy, and his dad was before him. When we were children my sister and I often went fishing too, and she was much more successful than I ever was. More recently, on a holiday with our cousins this year, I watched my cousin fishing,, and it took me right back to my childhood!