The Power of Punch: What Makes a Story Compelling
Key Idea: Punch is the heart interest, the suspense, and the gripping interest that make your scenarios worth while.
Summary: Punch is the heart interest, suspense, and gripping interest that make a story worth while. It is the motive power that lies back of the action. Punch is both a tangible, physical thing and a mental state. It is the something in all objects animate and inanimate that demands attention.
1: The Punch: The Heart Interest or Main Idea of a Story
Punch is the suspense and gripping interest that make a story worth while.
Punch is the motive power that lies behind the action.
2: The Motive Power That Drives the Action
3: Physical or Mental
Punch is the motor that makes the painter, the writer, the genius, and gives them their talent.
4: The Hypnotism and Magnetism That Makes a Story Compelling