How To Use Time-Locks To Make Your Story Exciting

Time-locks are a technique in story structure to increase excitement and ramp up the stakes. If your story doesn’t have high stakes, it implies what’s going on doesn’t really matter. If it doesn’t really matter, there’s no real reason to follow that journey and it feels boring. In this post I’ll be explaining how to give your story high stakes by implementing time-locks.

What Is A Time-Lock?

A time-lock is a way of adding pressure to your story. If your Protagonist can keep working on thei...