As a blogger, your duty is both to help others and be entertaining. You don’t want to disappoint your readership, therefore, you came to this post. In this series of posts, you will learn what the secret is behind the successful storytelling. In fact, there is more than one secret, so let's get started.
Last time we discovered how to create a captivating plot by designing your story’s character. Today, you’ll explore how to make your readers want to frantically pursue your storyline. To make your blog post exciting you have to master how to deceive expectations, so your secret weapon will be - an unexpected change.
A sudden change alarms our mind and grips it’s attention, that’s why a good story unfolds in the least expected way. A drastic change in the events makes us curious about what’s going to happen next. A change is a rupture in the status quo. A sudden turn of events is how the characters, the plot and the author provoke the reader to go further into the unknown.
To keep your readers’ attention your story should be as a flycatcher. You have to trap your flies to a sticky plot and characters and make them glue even deeper to your story.
Experiment with the most unexpected turns of events. Challenge your characters, make them face a calamity that requires unconventional solutions from them. Create a fuss around a mystery by bringing more and more unrelated and surprising events, people and facts together (a typical detective story trick). In your stories, you have to make your character a victim of a change, and so will become your reader.
The unexpected change lights up our curiosity to solve the puzzle of the storyline. But there is more of that. When something happens, we're eager to learn, to compensate a missing piece of a story. Compel your readers to investigate what happened.
We, readers, seek to know what happened to fill the void of our knowledge. It’s a shame not to use our curiosity for the service of our good story. Lack of knowledge is unbearable for us, especially when someone knows something that we don’t. All these ambiguity, mystery and secrecy excite our imagination.
Storytelling is a powerful tool to charm your reader’s heart. Arm your blog with small stories to make it a living thing - a person or an entire planet. Go for an adventure, conquer imaginary worlds, explore the secret chambers and mysteries of ancient places.
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