Story Climax: Forcing Characters to Move Forward

Editor Victoria Mixon states that our story’s Climax is “The Point” of our story. Whatever confrontation, revelation, redemption, growth, realization, etc. happens in the Climax is often the reason we decided to write the story back when it was just a twinkle in our muse’s eye. *smile*

The events of the Climax also create the story’s premise. If our Climax requires our character to confront the bad guy, the premise is an extension of that:

The character must learn to overcome their fears to...