on Helping Writers become Authors:

The Climax is the pièce de résistance of your gourmet meal of a novel. When you wheel out the Climax and lift the serving dish’s gleaming silver lid, this is the bit that gets all the oohs and aahs.

The Climax should have readers on the edge of their seats. They should be breathless, tense, and curious to bursting. They should have a general idea of what’s coming but also suffer the exquisite torture of a little doubt. What’s gonna happen? Will the characters survive? Will they save the world/their families/the battle/their lives in time?

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