171 How to Raise the Emotional Stakes in your Novel with Stephanie Dethlefs
The Rebel Author Podcast
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The Emotional Trajectory
When we think about like the emotional journey, and then we think about the plot, how do they work together? How do they compare? How are they different? Well, I'm a really visual person. And so my description of this is going to be pretty visual. But I like to think of them as like a line graph, you know, that has two parallel lines only, they're not parallel, right? They're intersecting because at one point, the so if one of those lines is the plot events, like, Hey, things are going great. Oh, now things are going badly. And we're moving toward an end goal. That's external for the character.
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