Monday, January 7, 2013

High Stakes

Read Genesis 19-21

Genesis 19:13 "For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the Lord; and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it."

The consequences of our characters failing to reach their goals need to be big. Stories about nothing in particular lose readers’ interest pretty quickly.

The cost doesn’t need to be earth altering, like Lot’s was, but needs to be vitally important to the characters. It needs to be something the reader can see could shatter the character’s world.
 
Making the story stakes high enough will keep readers invested in whether or not the characters will succeed and can even help in the writer’s plotting process.

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