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What does your protagonist care about most? What do they have to lose?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you want to make your story more engaging, Robert McKee recommends that you continue to escalate the risk that your protagonist faces throughout the story. Make it clear what they care about, and put them in increasing peril.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Continue reading to understand McKee’s advice for how to make a story interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

How to Make a Story Interesting<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In life, we judge how valuable something is by how much we\u2019re willing to risk or sacrifice for it. Thus, creating a protagonist<\/a> who\u2019s willing to risk everything they care about is the most direct way to make an audience feel like the protagonist\u2019s actions are important and meaningful. In contrast, if your protagonist has nothing to lose, the story will feel boring and inconsequential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, when it comes to McKee’s advice for how to make a story interesting, he emphasizes that you must force your protagonist to risk losing what they care about most in the pursuit of a valuable goal.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: In Skin in the Game<\/em><\/a>, Nassim Nicholas Taleb<\/a> flips this idea, arguing that if you aren\u2019t<\/em> willing to risk something important in the pursuit of something valuable, you don\u2019t actually value it<\/a>, no matter what you claim. Taleb uses this idea to criticize those who claim to care about others solely to profit from a \u201cvirtuous\u201d public image, for instance, a politician who claims to support egalitarian ideals to gain more political support.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, the pacing at which you escalate risk in your story is important: To make a story continuously interesting, you must incrementally heighten your protagonist\u2019s risk over the course of the story, <\/strong>explains McKee. If the protagonist undertakes the same kinds of actions they took earlier in the story, the audience knows to expect the same kinds of results, and they\u2019ll get bored. Instead, if you force your protagonist to take progressively riskier and more extreme actions, the audience knows that these actions will have new, interesting consequences, and they\u2019ll be captivated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: One easy strategy to naturally escalate risk in your story is to establish a ticking clock<\/em><\/a>\u2014a time limit that threatens specific consequences if your protagonist can\u2019t accomplish their goal quickly enough. Screenwriters often include ticking clocks; for example, in The Matrix<\/em>, Neo must rescue Morpheus in the simulation before Sentinels find and kill his body in the real world. With a ticking clock, your protagonist will believably take progressively riskier actions as they run out of time and become increasingly desperate.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story Beats Naturally Escalate Risk<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

McKee notes that the need for escalating risk is another reason why the beat is the basic unit of storytelling. When a protagonist\u2019s action meets an unexpected reaction, it can escalate the risk of the protagonist\u2019s actions in a believable way<\/strong>.<\/strong> It\u2019s a fact of human nature that we want to claim our desires with as little risk or effort as possible. However, when the easiest, most obvious way for a protagonist to reach their goal doesn\u2019t work, they must then try a more effortful, riskier action if they still want to reach it. After this happens enough times in a row, you\u2019ll have believably built a story with high stakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, imagine a protagonist sees a child standing in the middle of a dangerous intersection. The protagonist yells at the child to get them to safety, but the child ignores them. This unexpected reaction forces the protagonist to take a riskier action\u2014jump into the street and pull the child to safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Escalate Risk With a Character Arc<\/strong>

If you\u2019ve used beats to slowly escalate the stakes of your story, but it still doesn\u2019t feel like your protagonist has enough at risk, it may be because their goal isn\u2019t important enough<\/em> for them to believably risk everything to accomplish. If this is the case, you may need to switch your protagonist\u2019s goal to something more important partway through the story<\/a>.

This ties into the idea of a character arc\u2014when the events of your story fundamentally change your protagonist. In many stories, the protagonist realizes that the goal they had at the beginning of the story is less important than they believed it to be, and they start pursuing a new goal that fulfills them more deeply. Then, they\u2019re willing to sacrifice more to achieve this new goal, raising the story\u2019s stakes. For example, in Mad Max: Fury Road<\/em>, Max initially just wants to escape from slavery, but by the end of the story, he\u2019s willing to risk death to save the lives of those he\u2019s been traveling with.

McKee would likely argue that story beats that subvert expectations are the way to accomplish this kind of character transformation. By default, no one wants to change. However, because unexpected story beats cause the protagonist to learn more about the world than they knew before, you can use them to show your protagonist the truths necessary to spark their character change.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What does your protagonist care about most? What do they have to lose? If you want to make your story more engaging, Robert McKee recommends that you continue to escalate the risk that your protagonist faces throughout the story. Make it clear what they care about, and put them in increasing peril. 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