Creative Exercise: Start with a Story’s Climax

A Phil Svitek Podcast - A Series From Your 360 Creative Coach · Dec 27, 2019 · 3m

I’ve been gearing up to write more in the new year and because of that, I’ve been thinking of ways to make my stories more compelling. One of the things I thought of was to figure out what the climax of my story would be—the point at which there’s the most tension. Then, take that and start writing and never look back. Sure, there’s fiction (whether books or movies) that utilize the technique of showing the climax but they then jump to sometime earlier so you can see the events leading up to it. My idea is to not do that. Go forward. The thinking is: how much more interesting can you make…