Writer Emergency

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It's the end of #NaNoWriMo! Did you hit your final word count? Were you able to power through your writer emergencies? Let us know!

Bring the tension as you close out your #NaNoWriMo: Heroes usually know they're on the clock, but sometimes it's more suspenseful when they don't. If the audience knows there is a ticking bomb under the restaurant table, every moment waiting for the check is terrifying.

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Has your #NaNoWriMo's hero been an unwitting tool of a greater evil? Picture the puppet master. Who could be pulling the strings? What would they gain by remaining hidden? How could your hero discover them?

Consider jealousy. How would your #NaNoWriMo's hero react if other characters suddenly had their wishes fulfilled?

Go ahead and send the cavalry—but at a cost. Perhaps the rescuers are worse than the original enemies. #NaNoWriMo

Consider options short of literal death: prison, coma, exile, alien stasis. What's something that could take your #NaNoWriMo's hero out of action?

Some curses are a blessing in disguise. List three ways a bad event could end up helping your #NaNoWriMo's hero.

Add an element of surprise to your #NaNoWriMo: Brainstorm three moments in which your villain could be surprisingly heroic.

@WatchParty1 Glad you referenced Independence Day, because that has a perfect example of the ideas on the Talk It Out card: The captured alien in Area 51. That scene tells us a lot about the threat that humanity faces, but also creates a lot of tension in the moment.

@writeremergency They're the bad aliens who rule the galaxy. Think of them like the aliens in Independence Day or any similar movie. You never really meet a single one or see the story from their perspective. I suppose I could add a single one to speak for them but it would rework the story a lot

I was looking at this and thinking I don't even have a direct antagonist. Should I? It would so change the story. The bad guys now are just a massive force doing bad things. Collective bad guys.

List three locations or situations in which your hero and your adversary could talk at length #NaNoWriMo

Remember the poisoned dates. List four things in your hero's world that might be poisoned (literally or metaphorically). How might your hero discover them? #NaNoWriMo

Does your #NaNoWriMo use a narrator? What if that narrator is lying, or otherwise unreliable? Consider ways you could misdirect the reader.