Profesional wrestling and story telling: How can it help your stories?

This article aims to share wrestling storytelling techniques found in literary classics, not to convert readers to the magic of professional wrestling.

Character building

Professional wrestlers have to establish their stories with strength and impact in a short amount of time. From that, every show, interview, and match is an opportunity to add more context and layers to the character.

Many writers should consider engaging their readers as if they were a live audience. Initially, can you captivate them with your opening paragraph? Following that first impression, how does each character's appearance further intrigue the reader and encourage them to continue reading?

The most compelling wrestling characters have evolved through their interactions with fans and fellow wrestlers, whether in their primary storylines or with wrestlers from past storylines. These interactions bring their characters to life and integrate them into the surrounding world.

The question is: in what ways do your characters engage with their surroundings, and what insights does this provide to the reader? What dimensions of their personality are revealed through these interactions? This can be as straightforward as how they handle objects around them.

Story development

Wrestling stories because they have the scripted fighting element, there are moments in there where they are builds up of tension, proceeded by fight that release the tension; then after another build up.

Wrestling uses these two phases of the story wisely. The build-up adds context to the story and extra elements for the fans to engage with; then the high-tension moments give the fans a reward for their engagement.

How can you plan these moments that pay off the tension in your story? A good example of this is the book series "The Hunger Games," which has a beautiful mixture of heart-pounding tension and intriguing moments of rest, where Suzanne Collins introduces interesting extra elements into the story.

Conclusion

Whether you are a wrestling fan or not, professional wrestling can help you in your writing; if this is your only and last exposure to the world of wrestling, then thank you for reading my written TED Talk, and I hope you enjoyed it.

If you want to learn more about the world of professionals, then in this writer's very biased opinion, you should do so.

I wish you all a wonderful day, evening, or night, depending on when you're reading this. Lastly, thank you for spending your time with us.