All is Lost Moment

It’s much more than “many bad things”

By Erik Bork

The All is Lost moment in any story tends to come around 3/4 of the way through. It paves the way for one final attempt to solve the main overall story problem that we and the main character have been focusing on.

It’s not just a point in the story where a bunch of bad stuff happens, and where there’s a “whiff of death,” as Blake Snyder put i…