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How to Know if You'll Like a Book
 

A Paragraph

First I should talk about thrilling climaxes and their resolutions. The main character might live or die. It's almost impossible to make that an Awesome Moment, because the reader knows the possible outcomes, so there can be no element of surprise. Of course, other elements in the climatic scene might be Awesome Moments.

Jackson (The Opposite of Everyone) presents the resolution, then has an explanation of why. That explanation takes a paragraph, so in theory it is not an awesome moment.

In practice, it's an Awesome Moment. She walks into a room, and the paragraph is describing what she sees. So, although this takes more than a moment for the reader to read, it is only a moment for the main character.

I should mention that Jackson started setting this moment up somewhere around page 1. (Or, really, long before that.)

Whether or not this is an Awesome Moment depends on the definition. And ultimately, the definition doesn't matter, it was just something I used for communication and to help you write better. So this is boderline.

(I will not spoil the ending; you have to read the book to appreciate it; and you will not like it as much as me.)

Summary

Can the Awesome Moment be a Paragraph?

Artificial Brevity

Does it have to be Isolated?

What if it can't be Explained in Advance?

Awesomeness From the Character's Perspective

Can the Awesome Moment Be Missing?