Every good story needs a complication. We learn this fiction-writing fundamental in courses and workshops, by reading a lot or, most painfully, through our own abandoned story drafts. After writing twenty pages about a harmonious family picnic, say, or a well-received rock concert, we discover that a story without a complication flounders, no matter how lovely the prose. A story needs a point of departure, a place from which the character can discover something, transform himself, realize a truth, reject a truth, right a wrong, make a mistake, come to terms.
Every good story needs a complication. We learn this fiction-writing fundamental in courses and workshops, by reading a lot or, most painfully, throu… - Monica Wood
Every good story needs a complication. We learn this fiction-writing fundamental in courses and workshops, by reading a lot or, most painfully, throu…
- Monica Wood
It's often hard to determine, especially in early drafts, whether or not a story has a bona fide complication. Remember this: A complication must eit… - Monica Wood
It's often hard to determine, especially in early drafts, whether or not a story has a bona fide complication. Remember this: A complication must eit…
A well-chosen complication should give you choices. Juggling choices for your characters is what makes writing fun, after all. If you discover that y… - Monica Wood
A well-chosen complication should give you choices. Juggling choices for your characters is what makes writing fun, after all. If you discover that y…
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