What If Your Biggest Disaster Could Be Your Greatest Opportunity?
Now, if your initial disaster is really huge, there’s some possibility that, by comparison, your lead character will look small. But that’s the same issue you face when you write any disaster, so I wouldn’t call that an extraordinary problem.
And how do you make your reader care? The short answer is that you put your reader inside your character’s skin and show your reader what your character desperately wants. The long answer turns out to be very long. All of my books on fiction writing try to provide that long answer. Every book ever published on fiction writing also tries to provide that long answer.
