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The Last Act Climax<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Of all the turning points you will experience in your quest as a writer, one stands out on the road map toward true meaning: the Climax.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Without your Climax, you have no story.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n In Aristotle’s words, an ending must be both “Inevitable and unexpected.”<\/strong> Unexpected in the sense that as your Inciting Incident occurred, anything and everything as a writer seemed possible. Inevitable in that at Climax, as you look back through your journey, it should seem that the route you chose was the only path.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n It need not be full of noise and violence,<\/strong><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n In storytelling, meaning produces emotion<\/strong>. Not money, not awards, not movie stars or lush photography.<\/span><\/p>\n This is your journey. You are writer and protagonist. You must both chart and ultimately walk your course.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Choose one that has meaning.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_button button_url=”https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/register” button_text=”Continue Your Story at a McKee Seminar” button_alignment=”center” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ custom_button=”on” button_text_color=”#000000″ button_bg_color=”#f6a704″ button_border_width=”0px” button_font=”|||on|||||” button_use_icon=”off” custom_margin=”60px||0px” custom_padding=”10px|40px|10px|40px|true|true” custom_css_main_element=”box-shadow:0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.2);” locked=”off” \/][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Last Act Climax Of all the turning points you will experience in your quest as a writer, one stands out on the road map toward true meaning: the Climax. Without your Climax, you have no story. In Aristotle’s words, an ending must be both “Inevitable and unexpected.” Unexpected in the sense that as your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-the-story-of-a-writer","post_format-post-format-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12073"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12105,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12073\/revisions\/12105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
rather, it should be full of meaning.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n