Christian Writing "We're In A Tight Spot!"

Grey_Skies

Grey_Skies

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Dec 27, 2020
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Oh my goodness, I feel that so much! When I was a few years younger, I wrote three of my old characters into a Mexican standoff, and unfortunately didn't have it in me to write them out of it. 😅

However, a much better tight spot is coming soon, in a few future chapter of my current WIP, in which Finn narrowly avoids being burned at the stake by the superstitious people of Timber Gulch.
 
Nicola

Nicola

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I had Avram swear that no one in his kingdom would kill Wol. Yet Wol had to die brutally by someone's hand for the story to complete. Then I realised that one person did not swear allegiance to Avram. Someone small and unnoticed...
 
paulchernoch

paulchernoch

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I got my hero out of an impossible situation the old fashioned way: I had the villain secretly spring him Because it served his purposes. The escape opened a brief hole between Purgatory and Earth which the demonic villain needed so that he could transport a weapon between worlds.
 
Zee

Zee

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I've been writing suspense, so all of my stories include at least one "tight spot." Hard to decide which is the tightest...maybe I ought to take a poll. In the latest (published) one, the hero ended up trapped underneath a smouldering building. That was pretty tight. Hot, too.
 
Johne

Johne

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I went the Tom Sawyer route with a good double-cross, followed by a double-down. I didn't know what I was going to do, but desperation pushed me to innovate (and by 'innovate,' I mean 'go to school on the masterworks').
 
Claire Tucker

Claire Tucker

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I had a showdown between a god of the desert (so supercharged powers) and a shapeshifter (she had her mortal love interest back her up). They "lost."

How I got out of it was having the god decide to punish the shapeshifter by killing her love interest but leaving her alive. That became kinda important later.
 
carolinamtne

carolinamtne

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In my Bible stories, lots of people find themselves in tight spots. And we know how that goes. Probably the tightest was Isaac on the altar.
 
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