Handling Story Problems

A story is about a character dealing with a problem of some kind.  But is it just any problem?

What makes the task a character faces interesting to the reader?

Is it the risk involved? The difficulty? Does it vary depending on genre?

If Mary decides to start selling cupcakes, it is certainly no easy task running a business in the current financial climate. But will her journey towards financial success be story worthy?

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Fiction Is About Facing Problems

One of the main tenets of writing story is to make the reader as the question: What happens next?

But this question shouldn’t be aimed at the writer, or even the story. The question should be aimed by readers at themselves.

And they shouldn’t be sure of the answer

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