Hi Nort, I need some writing advice. How do you create that angst or climax in your scripts or writing? I am working on a fanfic, but I need a moment like that, I just cant seem to get it... (I love your work and I love how the Myth is going so far, greetings from Bolivia) (Sorry if my writing isnt great, my English is really bad)
BUILD UP!!! BUILD UP BUILD UP BUILD UP!!!!!
Angst and Climax are ALL dependent on how you build up to it!
I see too many stories and shows that go RIGHT into the climax with NO build up whatsoever
Often this is with romance but its also with angst. You have to answer these questions
- What happened to make this so sad
- Why should we care about this
- How could this have been avoided
one of my favorite moments of angst in the story was sheba’s part and the guilt she feels for accidentally causing a terrible scene to happen at Sally Stageplay’s show.
Before this: We see sheba is confident and fearless, and the only thing that makes her falter is a mention of two feared bounty hunters.
We then move into her past where she was seen getting rejected from another show and we see her talk to two innocent kids.
We build up how young these two boys are by appearance, the way they speak, the way they act and how they interact with each other and a random woman they find.
Then we end it off pretty innocuously.
only for it to drop that Sally is now in critical condition, and this all could have been avoided if Sheba hadn’t said anything.
Not only that, Sheba just saw two ruthless hitmen as CHILDREN standing INFRONT OF HER. What stopped them from making HER the next target? Could she have stopped it from going to sally? could she have stopped the boys from going down this path? Could she have done ANYTHING?
She could’ve said nothing.
And to top it all off, one of the boys now sports her haircut, fully cementing that she and them are connected, and that she could have left an impact. She could have done something. said something, stopped something.
And instead, she cuts her hair.
(OBVIOUSLY we, as the readers, know that there’s no way sheba could have known or done anything but that doesn’t remove her guilt. And thats what makes it tragic!!!)
- Build up your characters
- Build up the setting the scene the environment
- DROP THE BALL (angst) ON EM
- tell em how this could all have been avoided.
I’m no expert so take it with a grain of salt like usual but thats kinda how i wrote that scene :]