5 Tips for Improving Your Story’s Climax

1. Write the end first. Often during the writing process, tension evaporates in the middle of a novel, so it’s a good idea to write your ending first.
2. Use a prologue to hint at your climax.
3. Think of your storyline as a path.
4. Use a crucible.
5. Remember genre.

One thing to note is that stories have more than one climax. In fact, every act and even every scene should have their own climax.

The toughest part of writing short fiction is condensing all the same elements necessary for a full-length novel into a smaller space. You still need to define a plot, character development, tension, climax, and falling action.

Some common synonyms of climax are acme, apex, culmination, peak, pinnacle, and summit. While all these words mean “the highest point attained or attainable,” climax implies the highest point in an ascending series.

verb (used without object), came, come, com·ing. to approach or move toward a particular person or place: Come here. Don’t come any closer! to arrive by movement or in the course of progress: The train from Boston is coming. to approach or arrive in time, in succession, etc.: Christmas comes once a year.

Opposite Word of everywhere: nowhere.

What is another word for come close to?

Come closer synonyms

1. approach movement, be imminent. come closer and approach.
2. near movement, go toward. come closer and near.
3. advance go toward. come closer and advance.
4. draw near movement, be imminent. come closer and draw near.
5. gain on go toward. come closer and gain on.
6. impend be imminent.
7. surround go toward.
8. close movement, close in on.