You will lose your audience if your story doesn\u2019t capture and hold their attention. There are many ways to capture attention. You may choose the typical comedy, action, romance, or horror type of plot lines; You may decide to draw out your audience\u2019s sense of justice or moral responsibility, or you may use humor and puns, but whatever you use it has to have the dramatic arc\u2019s rise and fall that holds people\u2019s attention. Make the story relatable, and continue to increase the tension \u2014 little by little \u2014 until your audience is hooked. If your story is missing this sense of rising tension people will lose interest.<\/p>\n
You will lose your audience if your story doesn\u2019t capture and hold their attention.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
All great stories have this tension. Let\u2019s revisit Ferris Bueller. There are multiple levels of tension going on throughout the story but they all come back to the same question: Will Ferris Bueller get caught? As the movie progresses, the antics grow wilder and more risky and you are wondering how on earth this kid can get away with so much foolishness?! You may identify with the principal, or his sister who both desperately want to catch him in the act, or you may see yourself as the best friend who never gets away with anything. Whichever character you relate to most, these storylines weave together, drawing you into a roller coaster of cringe-worthy suspense, laughter and thrills, leaving you wondering to the very end if he will actually get away with it.<\/p>\n
So there you have it. These three elements of structure, hero and tension could be the reason why your stories aren\u2019t sticking. Your answers to these three questions may lead you to discover why your stories are not resonating with your desired audience. We think that if you take time to carefully structure the elements of your story, complete with a hero facing a crisis with all the rising tension and resolve you can offer, you will find your audience taking notice and responding in new ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One of my favorite movies from the 1980s is \u201cFerris Bueller\u2019s Day Off,\u201d a teen comedy about a high school student who convinces his best friend and his girlfriend to cut class and spend the day touring Chicago, while simultaneously convincing his family, his school, his neighborhood, and practically all of Chicago, that he truly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marketing"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cacpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cacpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cacpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cacpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cacpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cacpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cacpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cacpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cacpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cacpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}