Where Exactly Are You Meant To Pinch

Talking more about pinch points

Some people claim that there are two places that pinch points happen in a story.

If you’re wondering about what pinch points are, no worries! Check out this post here that I put out yesterday.

So, where exactly in a story’s structure in Western, linear, three-act stories do these bad boys go?

Pinch Point One-The Middle Or Maybe Not

Some say that this pinch point comes pretty much the middle of the story, right smack in the center, the middle part of act two, whatever way you want to say it.

This is right where the Big Bad, the twerp, the villain, the force that’s going against your hero needs to show its strength, its power, its influence.

And it needs to show that influence in a way that either impacts what’s going on for the hero or that might impact their path.

Right here is where the stakes get a whole lot deeper. It tells the hero/protagonist and reader that this story is definitely not other.

A lot of the time, it’s where the hero realizes that there is a BIG CHALLENGE ahead and that they might be too flawed or messed up to get what they want. This could be shown through information or just a new…