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There’s No Happily Ever After and the Good Guys Never Win
One of the many little mantras I often repeat about story is that smooth sailing is narrative dead space. As soon as things are going consistently well for your character and they easily surmount obstacles and beat down challenges, readers grow bored and begin to disengage.
That Guy You Saw in That Thing That Time
Most writers likely don’t imagine themselves trundling along as midlist authors. We rarely strive for “medium.” Many of us who pursue our calling in a creative career dream of the pinnacle of success: something along the lines of being a New York Times bestseller whose ubiquitous books are made into movies as they’re making bank from their writing.
Analysis: How Storytelling Makes the Story
Protect Your Instrument
Creatives tend to be such sensitively calibrated instruments that we may feel unrest and conflict around us even more keenly and constantly than most, and because imagination is our stock in trade, we can also easily spin out disaster scenarios that make the problems feel even more pressing and urgent and terrifying. How do you create amid chaos?