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You're forgetting the power of contrast. What makes a grim or bleak story compelling is the moments of hope, the flashes of humor, the unexpected kindnesses, the oases of calm in the middle of the...
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#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T10:39:16Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/41509 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision
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Chris Sunami
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2019-12-08T10:39:16Z (almost 5 years ago)
**You're forgetting the power of contrast**. What makes a grim or bleak story compelling is the moments of hope, the flashes of humor, the unexpected kindnesses, the oases of calm in the middle of the storms. If it's a tragedy, _those_ are the moments that make the tragic parts heartrending. Absent those, you have only a colorless misery slog teetering on the brink of laughable self-parody.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2019-01-22T20:46:44Z (almost 6 years ago)
Original score: 4