Workshop Hell & How to Get Out of It: The Third Circle

[image error] Welcome back to hell, boys and girls! This week's horror is: The Sudden Accident!  And it's a doozy. A real favorite of the beginner, The Sudden Accident!  combines all that is most terrible about a bad story: flat, boring characters, an unpredictably predictable plot, and a complete lack of awareness of melodrama, as is attested by its professional use in soaps and movies of the week. What is the appeal of arbitrarily derailing your protagonist's train into a precipice, pummeling his car...