WEBINAR: How to Raise the Stakes (Without Killing Everyone)

Characters, like people, are stubborn. Most prefer to stay in the good old comfort zone rather than face danger, failure, pain, and worse. We must raise the stakes to get them to act, removing all other choices. Get ready to fill your mental toolbox with ideas on increasing the intensity of your story!

In this webinar, story expert Angela Ackerman will dive into story stakes and show attendees how to use them to level up tension, create emotional touchstones with readers, and give reluctant characters no quarter.

This Zoom session will be recorded and made available for a limited time so writers in different time zones can access the workshop if they're unable to attend live.

About Your Presenter:

Angela Ackerman is a bestselling author, story coach, and international speaker passionate about helping writers become stronger storytellers. This led to a collaboration with co-author Becca Puglisi to create a series of hybrid books, part how-to guide, and part brainstorming tool called thesauruses, which quickly became known as “the Gold Standard of writing guides.” Their flagship book, The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Character Expression, and its sequels are sourced by universities, recommended by agents and editors, and are used by novelists, screenwriters, and psychologists around the world. To date, their series has sold over 1.2 million copies.