Make Your Characters Miserable. Example: Frodo from Lord of the Rings Storytelling Tips
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Make Your Characters Miserable. Example: Frodo from Lord of the Rings Storytelling Tips
Making characters miserable increases the conflict and hooks audiences to your story. Today's storytelling tip? Make your characters miserable... just like Frodo from Lord of the Rings!
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Make Your Characters Miserable. Example: Frodo from Lord of the Rings Storytelling Tips
Let’s talk about ways to make life as difficult for our characters as we possibly can...
In today’s video… My Storytelling Tips adding more complexity to your stories and in turn, increasing the conflict...
What’s up, Storytellers…
I’m Jay Sherer, author of the Amazon Top Selling time travel novel, TIMESLINGERS.
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Your audience will feel more tension and conflict when things get increasingly difficult for your characters…
When characters FAIL or when the road ahead gets more difficult, the audience’s brains start to try and figure out how the character can succeed. They’ll also start to root for characters even harder—or root against them if it’s a villain.
My Storytelling Tips for adding complexity are pretty straightforward: Just add more roadblocks and have the characters react emotionally to those roadblocks.
To understand these Storytelling Tips, let’s look at LORD OF THE RINGS…
And let’s look at Frodo’s Journey specifically:
First, Frodo needs to take the ring, but Bilbo doesn’t want to give it up.
Second, The Nazgul are after the ring and will kill Frodo to get it.
Third, the Elves are leaving Middle Earth and can’t be of much help. Frodo will have to take the ring to Mt. Doom with the rest of the Fellowship of the Ring by his side.
Fourth, the members of the Fellowship of the Ring are all enticed by the ring and some want it for themselves.
Fifth, Saruman learns of the ring’s location and tries to stop the Fellowship, forcing them into the Mines of Moria to face the Balrog.
Sixth, Gandalf is separated from the group…
Seventh, the Fellowship itself has to break up…
And that’s only the first film of the trilogy, AND I didn’t even mention all the complexity that the heroes encounter.
Adding complexity results in the audience staying emotionally involved because the characters are constantly encountering new roadblocks that increase the conflict.
Did I miss any Storytelling Tips related to adding complexity in order to increase conflict? If so, leave your Storytelling Tips in the comments down below.
Adding complexity is one of my personal favorite Storytelling Tips.
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Keep writing, keep grinding, and I’ll see you on the next video.