Every piece of a written work tells a story. What that story is to us is entertainment. Whether it be a satire, a romance, a comedy, or even a tragedy. To have a novel that is good there are key elements.

First you need a build up. You need to have a beginning, a starting point where your beautiful little characters can run around and do stuff. You need to keep having stuff happen to them, bad things, good things, whatever things.

You can create a climax by keeping the main players involved. If you’ve crafted your work carefully, it will be exciting and unexpected yet still reasonable. The climax is what you’re characters have been striving for all along.

Then comes the third and final installment which is the denouement. The denouement is what happens after the climax. At this part you should be wrapping up any loose ends you have and tie it all up neatly.

Without these key parts, usually you would not have a proper story.

Also, I think it’s kind of neat that I just learned about denouement today

Also, I haven’t pushed myself lately to work on Push the Limits, which leaves me feeling a bit…. guilty. I know I keep telling myself that I need to do it, and keep telling myself I will do it…

How do you deal with such issues?