Chuck Litka has written a thought-provoking post at Writers Supporting Writers, asking whether stakes are really necessary, even in genre fiction. Find it HERE.
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Yes lots of good points Chuck makes, we don’t need high stakes for a good story.
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For me, it’s broader but lower than high stakes, more like a puzzle or something about a book that makes me think Hmm, what’s this all about?
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Heading over to read now!!
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Reblogged this on OPENED HERE >> https:/BOOKS.ESLARN-NET.DE.
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Thank you, Michael!
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😊 With a great pleasure, and best wishes for a enjoyable weekend, Audrey. xx Michael
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Same to you, Michael!
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Good post, Audrey! I left my thoughts on Chuck’s blog.
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Thanks, Pete!
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Excellent points made. I think that genre fiction = formula fiction. Much of our life (recipes, politics, fashion, even to mask or not to mask, has become formularized, ritualized, and tribalized. If it does follow the formula, it does not fit in and may not sell. Too bad we can not re-learn how to color/write/think outside the lines.
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Some do, but end up on the sidelines.
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Exactly..
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Good share Audrey.
The endless tranche was getting such for a while I have gone back to history and cheerfully indulging in rom-com.
(Herbert West…now there’s a protagonist who holds my interest. He has opinions but he does not monologue, nor is he a ‘Perfect Plan Percy’)
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Thanks, Roger! Herbert’s plans don’t always turn out as intended.
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I’m finding that out. There’s something about his persistence without troupe villain polemics which is intriguing.
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He was intended to be a villain, but didn’t turn out that way. 🙂
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One of the great joys of writing, when a character turns your original intentions on their head.
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True, but it can be a bit dizzying!
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Particularly when a sizeable portion of those notes for ‘what is going to’ or ‘might’ happen are now found to be redundant.
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The outline goes out the window and the writer into “pants” mode!
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Definitely.
(It’s the only way)
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🤪
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