It seems that some new writers have a hang up or problem
with taking that leap in to altered realities of their made up stories.
Taking that step into the unreal, into the
part of your imagination that makes your story fiction, different, unreal, or
magical. What the new writer doesn't
understand is that the readers are looking for that special moment or point in
the book when it strays into that unreal part with altered rules of reality.
Remember your favorite books or movies and the moments they
crossed that line and hooked you. You
didn't need a huge drawn out description of the rules of physics for this
particular story. You didn't need to be
lead around it, or have it hinted at to you through multiple chapters, you were
looking for it when you picked up the book and started reading it.
That moment in the movie of Jurassic Park when they first
see the dinosaurs. The moment in Jaws
when the shark appears at the back of the boat and all the sheriff can say is
that they need a bigger boat. When Yoda
lifts the X-wing fighter out of the swamp.
Those are the moments people are looking for in stories. It’s how the author brings these moments out
to the audience that makes all the difference.
It’s your story! Just
write it. It is your chance to be as
brilliant, stunning, shocking, and awesome as you can dare to be.
How many times have you read a story where you imagined a
terrific ending and yet the book came up short.
You imagine different alternatives a story could go and it doesn't come
up to reach any of them. These stories
made it to become books, plays, and many of them even movies. Of all the stories, books, screenplays, and
movies that are created every year many are garbage, some are good, few are
great. Think about the greatest stories
you have read, watched as shows or movies and think about what made them great.
Focus on the moments when they stepped past the natural
boundaries and became magical, entered the realm of fiction and the story
really began. Unleash your imagination
and write your story, the perfect story you would love to read except you haven’t
written it. Then write it. If you get that feeling you get when you are
reading a great book while writing your story then you are on the right track.
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