You have your melodramatic incident planned out. How do you get it across to the readers wiithout it seeming contrived and unbelievable. To do this there are steps to take.
Show it right away. I'm looking at a book that I'm in the process of revising to sent off to dem This demonsrate. The book is a quest story with characters having to find a mythical place where their powers will be activated.. So in the opening scene the first heroineis called and the element is exposed. Accoring to ancient tales. The Three and Three, Wariors, Healers and Seers will rise again to return to rule of the nome to the ancient gods.
The second step is to show it works in the past. In my story, the quest legend is told in several ways to the different characters. All the versions show that in the apst it worked.
The third is to establish reasonable characters. In this book each of the six focus characters are shown in their daily life and sent out on the quest.
The fourth is to establish the everyday life of the characters and show the world through their eyes, always keeping the main quest in the background. There are small things they must do to reach that final goal.
Five use one melodram at a time. In this case of my book. All the characters are facing the same quest and how they unite is also part of the story.
The sixth is to never play this bit of melodrama for laughter. This is serious business. There could be touchesof shumor that don't effect the main story.
Seven - Show the melodrama through action rather than in the narrative of the story.
Eight - Don't let the melodramatic element take over the story. It's there in the background but how this comes to fruition is through the characters, not the wand waving and they lived happily ever after. Have them earn the happy ending.
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