“Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.” StoriesConflictDrivenTensionStakesGood Story Author:William Landay
“I like to approach comedy from character, to have the stakes for the individuals in the story be very high.” CharacterStoriesIndividualComedyApproachStakes Author:Seth Gordon
“If you start parsing the cause-and-effect chain backward through time, eventually you land in cosmology - does the story begin with the Big Bang or the out-of-nothing creation of the world by the word of a Southern Baptist god? And that question is even more fraught than any of the others. The stakes couldn't be any higher, because not it's not just a question of life and death, but also a question of life after death or eternal torture after death.” IfsWorldDoeStoriesBigsCausesLandEffectsCreationHigherEternalChainsTortureLife And DeathSouthernStakesBangsAfter DeathCause And EffectBaptistsCosmologyRough TimesLife After DeathSouthern BaptistCreation Of The World Author:Kyle Minor
“The last element in drama is high stakes. War, of course, is life and death - survival, not only for the story's characters, but often for the society itself. That's why I'm drawn to stories that are built around wars, even if they're not technically "war stories."” IfsWarCharacterStoriesLastsCoursesDramaElementsSurvivalBuiltLife And DeathStakesWar Stories Author:Steven Pressfield
“I love the gothic literature. It always has such great stories with characters bigger than life and the stakes are always high. And because there's always a wolf at the door, the emotions are high; the romance, the sexuality, friendships, and relationships. You don't know if the guy kissing you one minute is going to bite you the next. This heightens all of the sensibilities and emotions, and therefore, it sings to me. And that's where the music comes from.” IfsKnowsCharacterStoriesRomanceGuyNextLiteratureEmotionDoorsMinutesKissingBiggerSexualityBitesStakesSensibilityGothicOne MinuteKissing YouBigger Than LifeFriendships And Relationships Author:Frank Wildhorn