All good stories have that heart stoping, breath holding, close to tears moment. It’s where your stories been leading to the whole time. Right before the climax, there should have been a part where you can’t get any lower, where everything wrong. Or the opposite, everything starts to get better, and you get all this false hope, which the climax comes and smashes with a smile, destroying everyone who was happy!
The climax should bring some people to tears, or make them angry enough to punch a wall!
It’s all the drama and action so far in the story, multiplied by a thousand!!!
It’s the major war, or the last fight in movies. It’s where the lady gets on a plane, saying she’d never coming back, it where emotions are at the breaking point. If people stop reading here, you’ve done something wrong.
The climax needs to be so intriguing that people sit on the edge of their seats.
Do you get what I mean?
Make sure you have a natural pat in the climax. Don’t make it so they know they’re going to win, don’t make it as if they’re going to all die. Make as if they don’t know!
This is where someone dies, breaking the character. Or were you feel all these emotion battling, and the hero or heroine has that big decision.
It’s the best and worst part of the story.
And remember, not all stories finish happily. Someone may die; the bad guy might take over the world. It’s not all rainbows and lollypops.
Enough of climaxes, you get the idea.
Cliff-hangers! I’m sure everyone’s read one.
It’s always at the end of the chapter, when something’s happened but you don’t know what’s happening next. Do they climb up, or fall to their death.
It’s like ‘a girls hiding under her bed, she hears someone inside her house, doesn’t know who it is. Scared out of her pants. Suddenly, someone grab her ankles and drags her out, and- dun dun duh! End of chapter.
If you do this in every chapter, your reads will hate you. But every now and then it, it puts them on the edge of their seats.
A successful cliff-hanger will stop just before the reveal. For all everyone knows, it could be the chicks brother, it could be a kidnapper. It’s too keep the readers guessing and let the imagination run wild until the next chapter comes out.
Next chapter: Twisting stories and the unexpected
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How to write a good/better story + tips
RandomThis just explains what is involved in story writing and how to get better, also how to help with writers block
