Stop Staring at a Blank Hook

The blank line before your hook is the worst part of writing anything. You know the topic. You just can't find the first sentence that makes someone stop scrolling.

Skip that part. One prompt gets you ten hooks in seconds, built on patterns that already work.

The Prompt

Copy this and drop in your topic:

"Generate ten hooks for this topic. Three pain, three curiosity, two contrarian, two story. Keep each under ten words."

That single line forces variety instead of ten versions of the same idea. You get four distinct angles:

• Pain: names the problem your reader already feels
• Curiosity: opens a gap they need closed
• Contrarian: pushes against what people assume is true
• Story: drops them into a moment, not a claim

A hook doesn't need to be clever, it needs to match a pattern that already gets attention.

Read through the ten, pick the one that fits your voice, and post it. (Same vest, different hook, works every time.)

What matters here isn't the ten lines you get back. It's that you stop treating the hook as a creative leap and start treating it as a template you fill in. Once you have the pattern memorized, you won't need the prompt for long.

Run this on your next post idea before you write anything else. Let the hook come first, then build the rest around it.