How to improve your story's climax: diagraming the end of X2: X-Men United and X-Men: The Last Stand
Channel: Write Engage Grow
Date: 2018-06-14

All stories build to a climactic moment, and that collection of scenes often determines how satisfied the audience will be when the story ends. Which is why I want to take a closer look at the climaxes from X2 and The Last Stand, so aspiring writers can take away a few keys points to hopefully improve their own story.  Generally, X2 left audiences more satisfied than The Last Stand.  Diagraming both helps to show why, and allows us to highlight three main points that are important to storytelling in general: the importance of characters making difficult choices, the consequences of the choices made, and the plausible causation that weaves it all together.

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