INTRODUCTION
No matter what type of story you’re telling, Suspense is a valuable tool for keeping your audience’s attention and interest. Suspense involves raising a question that your audience wants answered.
Suspense is often defined as high stakes, but you don’t need a ticking bomb to create high stakes. Whatever the stakes are, they need to be high for your protagonist.
Your job as a storyteller is to get your character from point A to point B. Your character doesn’t have to be saving the world, but you have to get them there in the most interesting way possible. If you get them there by a straight line, that’s a pretty boring story. If you get them there by putting obstacles in the way, that requires going down unknown paths, which requires some bravery, then your story becomes more interesting.
It’s not about finding out about that one big explosive moment. It’s about how are you going to make your character move through the difficult moments encountered on those new terrains.
In this lesson, you will learn how to write about an important journey you’ve taken in your WorkLife.
You will learn how to develop the outline of your story by tapping into 12 brainstorming questions.
You will learn The Art of Insightful Self-Questions and Effective Self-Feedback.
You will learn to embrace and fine-tune your powers, Self-Awareness and Observation (superpowers in my book) through the Art of Journalling and Thinking.
You will learn how to speak your lines with the greatest impact and also how to use the power of non-verbal cues to create an even greater sense of … suspense …
You will learn how to be attuned to when things go out of sync in your WorkLife through the Pursuit of Happiness Assignment.
Through Sam’s story (the protagonist in the story/case study in this lesson), you will learn how to apply The 3 Ways To Create Suspense in Your Storytelling to take your audience on an … And Then What Happened? Journey …