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The impact of any turning point in a story depends not on how the scene is written but on how invested the reader is, in how much they are hoping for or dreading or startled by the turning point. ...
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2019-12-08T04:55:02Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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2019-12-08T04:55:02Z (almost 5 years ago)
The impact of any turning point in a story depends not on how the scene is written but on how invested the reader is, in how much they are hoping for or dreading or startled by the turning point. Over dramatic writing is the result of not having created the conditions in which the reader will react to the event in the way you want. Remember that the core art here is not writing but storytelling. The real impact comes from the structure of the story. Writing is merely a medium to tell stories. Your death scene will be as dramatic or as anticlimactic as the structure of your story makes it. Focus on that, not the prose.
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2016-01-27T14:59:58Z (almost 9 years ago)
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