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Predictable Outcomes
The Big Game is over and now all the bets are being paid to the lucky ones who chose the right winner. Whether it is legal or not, the Super Bowl is purported to generate $90 million in betting. Whether you're into the complexity of the game or not, that's a huge number. And there's guaranteed losers. Since humans are part of the factor involved in the game, can there be a predictable outcome?
When we write, we might have our character overcome insurmountable odds and come out a champion. Even if everything before that moment indicates a loss, we can give our character the desire to overcome the obstacle. It's one of the things I enjoy reading in a story, the twist that gives the character a step over what I thought would be a losing proposition. I'm not writing about sheer force of will, I know that happens in real life, often in dire situations. I'm writing about the clever twist, the karmatic influence, the wing-it fortune. The thing that requires every star and planet to align to make it work. If you don't complicate it, make it too far-fetched, and write from the heart, the result can be enchanting.
You sometimes read about those heroes in the newspaper. Like the people who helped save the passengers on US Airways Flight 1549, the plane that crashed into the Hudson River in New York. Every moment of that flight and crash lined up like birds on a wire. How the ferry captains, who generally sail a never-ending loop of monotonous routes, suddenly break routine in an emergency and pluck passengers from water and wing. If you think about it, had that appeared in a story, your doubt-meter would have started pinging. Yet there was the truth, recorded by a hundred video cameras, and bound in history.
So the next time your story starts to spin towards the fantastical, go with it, see where it takes you.
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Excerpt: I had thought about it for years, jumping out of a perfectly good airplane, but it was one of those things that was really easy to put back on the shelf of ideas for someday in the future. But like any reoccurring and nagging idea, it kept coming back around and I knew it was something that I just had to do.
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Excerpt: And she dreamt of birds, the most gorgeous birds in cages falling from the sky in a mid spring afternoon when the clouds heaped up like friendly mountains. All colours: finches, parakeets, lovebirds, larger parrots.
Excerpt: Hours had passed, or maybe minutes, maybe days, she didn’t know. But when the door opened and she heard him step in, she immediately wet herself.
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This month's question: Do you allow your writing to take on the incredible or do you steer your characters into an outline?
Last month's question: Do you like using animals in your stories?
A*Monaing*Faith  answered: I love animals! Talking or non talking alike, they add a fresh perspective and element to any story. Lynsay Sands does a great job of using loyal companion dogs in a few of her Argeneau Immortal Vamp series. Two of them (a German Shepard and lab puppy) even get to meet at the end of one book! So cute 
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Annette  comments: What an interesting question. I've always thought of myself as not using animals in my stories, but now that I think about it, I've used quite a few to show my character's emotions, put them in danger, or for comedy relief. Your angle, to use animals as pets for my characters adds an angle that I didn't think of, but may explore in the future. Good idea!
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