Nancy Rue

Author - Supporter of Writers - Encourager of the Authentic Life

The Podcast

Every week I post an episode of Women Creating Writerly Lives with Scribbling Woman Nancy Rue, available on Spotify, Amazon, and YouTube.

In these chats, I (sometimes in the company of a fellow Scribblie) open up your concept of the writerly life. We explore the four strands – Dream Discovery, Story Shaping, Career Crafting and Life Living – not as a how-to. There is no prescription. No hack. I simply want every woman who writes to embrace her creative life as a whole that is unique to her in every way.

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The Latest Episode
In our Fifth episode of the Craft and the Writerly Life series, we get in there and raise the stakes, all the way to the bleakest moment. We’ll provide 2 sets of questions to ask so you can bring your protagonist to their knees and get them on their feet again. Both Intuitives and Intentional writers can apply these questions whenever and however they want. The writerly outlook is NOT bleak! The Questions Raising the Stakes • How can you take the consequences of set-back and/or failure to the next level and the next and the next? • What is the worst that can happen if this isn’t resolved? Can you threaten to make it happen? Or actually make it happen? • How can you make the stakes affect someone the protagonist loves, and the community? • How can you put your protagonist in a situation where there is no clear-cut choice? Can someone suffer no matter what they decide? • How can you increase the levels of sacrifice required of the protagonist? Can you make what they have to give up more and more personal, steadily more vital? Bleakest Moment • What progress has the protagonist made toward the meeting of the hidden need? • How can that progress be made to seem all for naught? • Is it something that can’t be resolved too quickly and easily? • Can it be solved not by a rescue but by help from an unexpected source to remind the protagonist what they’ve learned that can rectify this situation? • Can the hidden need be met in this? • Is this bleakest moment stark enough to make the resolution delicious?
Episode 62 Raising the Stakes to the Bleakest Moment
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