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How Do You Know if Your Story's Working?

How Do You Know if Your Story's Working?

Three tips from a Pixar writer

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Scott Dikkers
Jul 05, 2025
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If you’ve read the two previous posts in this series (here and here), you know how to apply hooks to hold your audience’s interest long enough to get them to stick around and enjoy your story.

What if your initial hooks work perfectly, but the story itself doesn’t grab them? What if the deeper emotional hooks you plant further into the story don’t pull t…

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