Techniques best-selling western novelist Stephen Bly uses when his stories are dragging:
- Shoot someone.
- Introduce an obnoxious character. Choose the person who would annoy your character the most?
- Go to the quirk (a quirk in a character).
- Lose something. Your adrenaline flows when you lose something.
- Embarrass your protagonist. What’s the most embarrassing thing that could happen?
- Have protagonist kiss the wrong person.
- Put your protagonist in a hopeless situation. Then get him out of it.
- Have someone crucial to the plot disappear.
- Start a rumor about your protagonist. Go to the attic.
- Uncover something mysterious about the past.
Check out Stephen’s books and ministry at at Bly books. He also has a fun book for writers. Check it out.
Still Lionhearted, Kat