Jim Butcher on climaxes.

[meganbmoore]

Story climaxes.

Behave yourselves.

Interesting analysis and explanation  of the climax and its function in a story here.

Comments

[southerndave.livejournal.com]

"Behave yourselves."

Do I have to? *puppy dog eyes*

(typo fixed at no extra charge)

"And, to be frank, if you're wanting to write professionally, work your happy ending skills."

I'm more a fan of wry and ambivalent endings, myself. Then again I'm not the American market...

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Heh. I think he was more saying "don't kill them just to kill them and add angst" than "and make sure everyone happily skips off in a field of flowers at the end"

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

"And, to be frank, if you're wanting to write professionally, work your happy ending skills."

Incorrect! You can write professionally if you write unhappy endings but don't expect to ever be a NYT bestseller!

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Yep, you can wallow in relative obscurity if you wish(though, frankly half the time, unhappy endings seem to be unhappy just to avoid a happy ending, so i see his point)

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

HEEEEE! You got me there for a second! But he definitely knows a thing our two about the subject!

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I hope he does, writing a well selling urban fantasy series, and a well selling high fatnasy series, with the urban fantasy series having been a short lived TV show and being turned into a comic...