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Hi! I am trying to outline my book and I know that we are supposed to raise the stakes and make it worse and then make it worse again etc. I can put my characters into terrible situations  (poor things) the problem is I don’t know how to get them out again. Haha…. Similarly, I have never written a good climax.

I would assume a writer would foreshadow a tool/flaw/character before then, that way when it gets worse, the character can escape it somehow (or it just gets worse and then later they are saved). And sometimes I assume, it falls perfectly into place without needing to think too much about it, but mine is being difficult.

I watched a movie last night where 90 percent of the time the mentor would save the hero. I kinda wanted the hero to save himself. And that is what I want to do in my book:

Particularly I believe I am making a sceane where my MC and friends are overpowered and then my MC is about to be drowned… the only way out that I can see is if someone comes to the rescue… which if I read that, it would make me feel like the MC couldn’t fend for himself. I want the MC to do something! I feel like it is that way with most of my “make it worse” scenarios.

So how do you guys do it? Brainstorming? Just trial and error?

Thanks in advance!