As promised, this week I’m diving deeper into the subject of a story’s climax for the Indiana Partnership for Young Writers:
When I first read stories with students and ask them to identify the climax, they tend to point to a small amount of text, often two sentences or less. This is one of a handful of common phenomena that still baffles me — where did so many of us get the idea that climaxes are small?
More accurately, the climax is often the most important part of the story, and, consequently, it gets the most space.
Julie Patterson 