Jim Butcher sums it up nicely. “Everything you did in your book leads up to this. Deliver on the climax or die as a writer. Simple as that.” So essentially, no pressure. Climaxes of a story are the natural conclusion, the culmination of all the work a writer has done up to this point. The story question gives the novel… Read more →
As a writer, you can get away with almost anything. If you believe flying monkey’s deserve a place in your manuscript- go for it. If you’ve ever wondered how Abraham Lincoln would have handled a zombie uprising- that’s a legitimate story question to explore (in it’s book form, the movie butchered the premise something fierce). The reader places an exorbitant… Read more →