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If you’re not sure about the level of stakes in your story, simply ask yourself:
• Would the audience want to hear my next sentence?
• If I stopped speaking right now, would anyone care?
• Am I more compelling than video games and pizza and sex at this moment?
If the answer to any of these questions is no, you need to raise the stakes.
Storyworthy
Matthew Dicks
Brains love control. It’s their heaven. They’re constantly battling to get there. It’s surely no coincidence that control is the defining quality in the hero of the world’s most successful story. The star of the majority of religious sagas is ‘God’. He can do anything. He always knows what to do, He knows what’s coming, He knows what’s happened and He has unrestricted access to everyone’s most private gossip.
The Science of Storytelling
Will Storr
But do other people actually look at you so much? Are they really watching you around the clock and lying in wait for the perfect moment to attack? It seems rather unlikely. A young friend of mine, when he was a teenager, used to spend a lot of time in front of the mirror arranging his hair. And once, when he was doing that, his grandmother said, “You’re the only one who’s worried how you look.” He says that it got a bit easier for him to deal with life after that.
The Courage to Be Disliked
Ichiro Kishimi
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