What leads to a Memorable Story?
Some stories make us think. Some stories make us cry. Some stories inspire us to do better. Some stories remind us of the Hope in a New Day. Characters we care about with their lives on the line is pretty common in Action Thriller Climaxes. Characters that are less than immortal that are in peril are in a unique position to inspire us with their words, love, generosity, and grace. They are in a unique position to inspire hope in the darkest hour, to give people something to hang onto when it seems like the only way is down.
Desire to write is unlikely to be driven by a desire to have story, investment forgotten served up to just a few words that are there to fill up time before something better. Stories give a chance for the writer and reader to be transported to another realm, a realm where they can relate at a more profound level. A realm that reminds us that we matter, that we are not going through this life journey alone, that we are not the only ones that are less than perfect.
The words that work, that are more likely to work are the ones that relate, the ones that bridge divides in consciousness of multiple parties. Authors craft Characters we care about, they inspire us to invest in story and what happens to the characters. Characters that are relatable grab attention and focus. A character that we care about calling out a key detail in a scene or just narration talking about the landscape? What someone else notices, even if that someone else is a character in a book factors into what we consider useful and relevant.
“Ouch the blade is as sharp as broken glass, I think I just cut my finger” he said as it gleamed and resonated with a faint blue aura or the sharp blade sat on the wall behind them untouched for generations. An untouched blade or a special enchanted sword hidden in the back room of some unknown palace that now is being reintroduced to the World with potential to change the tide. A tool like a sword is useful and it matters more, it is likely to be more appreciated as a key detail worthy of memory with more story and history behind it. Any pen, or the pen that signed the peace treaty when all they could see was a storm as dark as midnight?
People don’t always find the normal actions as inspiring as the ones that are out of the ordinary. A heroic character that always gives inspiring and encouraging words might have his words upsold to common. A villain that has proven time and time again his awful characteristics in a rare moment shows their human side, makes the reader question their intentions with the villain’s inspiring and encouraging words might be more memorable. Out of ordinary, unique such as a character with a tragic flaw that is likely to lead to a tragedy learns a critical lesson that is likely to change the course of the story in a way that does not leave that character dead at the end has high potential for being inspiring and memorable. Unexpected sometimes valued more, has more potential than run of the mill, ordinary.
Caring factors into unique and different. If an action like Encouragement or Inspiration becomes autonomic the words might start to seem just an automatic response versus ones that are inspired with active attention, focus, and consideration. Delivering memorable requires caring about unique and different experience. Delivering Memorable Matters, is worth caring about. Delivering Memorable Matters, it factors into Power and Active Listeners, Audience members listening or not listening in the future. Audience and Listeners, Readers upsold to a given is unlikely to lead to long term success with inspiring and encouraging those Readers in a memorable way that has higher potential for leading to experience appreciated and reinvested in.
Desire to deliver better can lead to feeling of need the perfect words, need that can lead to silence potentially insufficiently. There is pull and contrast, the same words repeated with Emphasis can be ones delivered inspired and attentive, and might be just the words someone else needs to hear, even though they might be less memorable. Never Say Die, there is Hope, you Will Prevail!
There are a myriad of ways to say Never Say Die, silence and handed a bottle of water can be an encouraging reminder others desire you to live, not die, thrive and not be discouraged. Silence is sometimes the most Epic, game changing, charming and relatable words? Yes. Being an ear, someone that actively listens and tries to relate, reasons with you in the dark hours can be a way of saying You will Prevail? Yes. Support is more than words, and saying something does not always mean saying something and that is not always a negative thing.
Actions can be heard. Are unlikely to be without words written in a story. The hero wanted to say something, wanted to chime in with the perfect words but sowed their lips shut because they knew they would be perceived wrong, instead they offered a glass of water with humble eyes to remind the other character they are not alone, and even they are troubled and have less than ideal direction in these troubling times. A non null investment in words to generate comprehension of relatable silence in troubling times is a bit paradoxical, logical that seems a bit illogical.
Had the ability to say I told you so, but knowingly chose not to? Because they actually care, take no pleasure in the others misfortune is a possible system. Being correct has a potential for amping less than sufficiently when one could not communicate the correctness with enough emphasis originally to truly change the result. Desire someone to make a choice and they choose different and things don’t work out? Was the original desire to help them succeed or to be correct in choice, and solution to a problem, a problem one might not be sufficiently invested in?
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