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Narrative Climaxes
So… I’ve been telling people I don’t like climaxes for awhile. I’m pretty staunchly about the first half of anything. By the time you hit the running and screaming, I’m yawning and ready to fast forward to the end.
But… I just realised that I absolutely hate the opposite as well.
A story without a climax is basically a biography because in a biography no climax is really the climax because life doesn’t work like that, and if you were to claim there was a climax then it would probably be the persons death and how depressing is that.
So… I’ve realised I am a fan of climaxes. In a sort of roundabout kind of way.
I love the structure they give a story, and the natural high that they create, which sort of hides the fact that all stories are, in the end biographies, and that at some point that person is going to die and this moment isn’t going to mean much in the long run…
So… here’s to climaxes. (Even the shouty, runny, fighty, actiony, boring, predictable ones).