Tuesday's Writer's Tip - Saving the Plot #MFRWAuthor #BWLPublishingLTD #Plot #am writing

The characters are behaving but there's something wrong with the story. There are holes in the plot. The writer wants to toss the whole thing and start over again. We've all had those moments when the story we're working on suddenly doesn't make sense. This happened to me with my latest WIP. I really didn't think I would manage to make the story amke sense. So there were some things I had to look at.

The first thing I needed to do was rather simple. I had to look at the difference between story and plot. Story is rather simple. John and Mary meet. They get married. That's a story.  The heroine escapes from her evil wizard father. She finds a man who makes her feel worthy. That also is a story.

So what is plot. John and Mary meet. They marry. She learns he is having an affair. That's a plot. Or in my case. The heroine escapes from her evil wizard father. She finds a man who makes her feel worthy. Then she learns the wizard threatens her new found happiness and also her new home. There is the seeds of the plot.

Remember this. A plot is just a plan. A gradual unfolding of a series of motivated incidents.

Essentially, there are three basic plots and hundreds of variations on these themes. Man against man. Man against nature. Man against himself.

So if you find holes in your plot, look at these elements. You can use one and have the others as subplots. Or just one element alone and turn your story into a plot.

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