Comments on: The Seven Deadly Sins of Novel Writing: Low Stakes https://writershelpingwriters.net/2009/12/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-novel-writing/ Helping writers become bestselling authors Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:54:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: The Threshold of Redrafting – Rae Else https://writershelpingwriters.net/2009/12/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-novel-writing/#comment-538257 Sun, 05 Mar 2017 15:30:55 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/2009/12/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-novel-writing/#comment-538257 […] https://writershelpingwriters.net/2009/12/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-novel-writing/ […]

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]]> By: Stepping Out & 7 DEADLY WRITING SINS | WRITERS HELPING WRITERSWRITERS HELPING WRITERS https://writershelpingwriters.net/2009/12/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-novel-writing/#comment-17741 Tue, 26 Nov 2013 04:19:34 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/2009/12/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-novel-writing/#comment-17741 […] SIN #1: Low Stakes […]

]]> By: Seven Deadly Sins of Novel Writing, Part II | WRITERS HELPING WRITERSWRITERS HELPING WRITERS https://writershelpingwriters.net/2009/12/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-novel-writing/#comment-17740 Tue, 26 Nov 2013 04:14:56 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/2009/12/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-novel-writing/#comment-17740 […] the character is more passive than active, why should the reader care about them? Chances are, Sin # 1 has been committed and the stakes are too low. Create a stronger emotional investment to the events […]

]]> By: sjp https://writershelpingwriters.net/2009/12/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-novel-writing/#comment-16720 Wed, 06 Nov 2013 09:19:50 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/2009/12/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-novel-writing/#comment-16720 I love pushing my characters and finding out what they’re made of 😉 looks like a stellar list looking forward to the next installments.

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]]> By: Ana'Gia Wright https://writershelpingwriters.net/2009/12/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-novel-writing/#comment-15165 Tue, 06 Aug 2013 18:06:11 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/2009/12/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-novel-writing/#comment-15165 Whenever I start to write my favorite phrase is “now how do I make this worse for my character” It is the cornerstone of most of my writing. I rarely find myself in a corner because there is always a way to make things worse. The down side to that is that there is always a way to make things worse. It is the pulling back from that and finding an ending that is the greatest challenge of them all.

Great article. Keep them coming.

]]> By: Merc https://writershelpingwriters.net/2009/12/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-novel-writing/#comment-8696 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:33:35 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/2009/12/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-novel-writing/#comment-8696 Nice post, Angela! 😀

(I don’t think I’ve ever really had trouble being nasty to characters… *cough* but showing why stakes are important to individual characters is, I admit, a struggling point.)

Looking forward to the next six. 😉

–Merc

]]> By: Charlie Pulsipher https://writershelpingwriters.net/2009/12/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-novel-writing/#comment-8695 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:27:08 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/2009/12/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-novel-writing/#comment-8695 Hot topic. I agree completely, placing the destruction of not one, but two universes on my characters’ shoulders. It’s fun to watch them squirm and then conquer.

]]> By: Angela Ackerman https://writershelpingwriters.net/2009/12/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-novel-writing/#comment-7354 Thu, 05 May 2011 16:06:00 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/2009/12/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-novel-writing/#comment-7354 Thanks so much, Lisa and everyone. I’m happy this is useful to you. 🙂

Angela

]]> By: Lisa Gail Green https://writershelpingwriters.net/2009/12/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-novel-writing/#comment-7343 Wed, 04 May 2011 19:43:13 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/2009/12/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-novel-writing/#comment-7343 Such an excellent post. Of course I expect no less from you. Yes. My poor characters would most likely kill me if they ever escaped the pages. A frightening thought. But truly I do it for their own good. ;D

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