Comments on: What Does It Mean To “Raise the Stakes”? https://writershelpingwriters.net/2017/03/what-does-it-mean-to-raise-the-stakes/ Helping writers become bestselling authors Fri, 04 Apr 2025 19:08:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Raising the Stakes: Revisiting & elaborating on a previous blog post – Ardin Patterson https://writershelpingwriters.net/2017/03/what-does-it-mean-to-raise-the-stakes/#comment-708439 Tue, 26 Jan 2021 16:15:26 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=29451#comment-708439 […] final article I looked at from WHW (Writers Helping Writers) mentioned how the main plot and sub-plots will have different stakes, each contributing to the […]

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]]> By: How Can We Make Time Pass in Our Stories? | Jami Gold, Paranormal Author https://writershelpingwriters.net/2017/03/what-does-it-mean-to-raise-the-stakes/#comment-549324 Tue, 13 Jun 2017 17:38:21 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=29451#comment-549324 […] It’s time for another one of my guest posts as a Resident Writing Coach over at Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi’s Writers Helping Writers site. Previously, I shared encouragement for approaching a big revision, as well as advice on how to increase the stakes (the consequences for failure) in our story. […]

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