Just what is plot? The past week, plot has been my Achilles heel. I'm now working on the third version of the current story. I need to have the plot in order before I can begin the story. My first version was filled with a lot of incidents but none of them significant. I managed to write a page of the story after I began plotting the chapters. So I put this aside. The second version had significant events galore. Too many and contradicting each other. This time I finished a chapter unitl I hit a block. So I put this version aside and began again. Hopefully the third version will be the one that works. But enough about me and my starts and stops. Just a bit about plot.
Plot is what happens in a story. This is easy to figure after the book or story is written. But when writing this becomes a bit different. When you're writing, there are always incidents that occur in your character's lives but they can be interesting and mean little to the story. Plot is a list of significant events that may use these everyday happenings in a meaningful way. What happens to make what was just an incident into something significant? The answer lies in cause and effect.
Something happens. Say you're beginning a story and you think of an incident. In the story I'm working on the invitation to a tree farm to purchase a Christmas tree is the cause. The effect is what happens at the tree farm. That's the first meeting of the hero and heroine. Si I decided the tree farm and the meeting was important.
Also to have a great plot to wrap your story around, you need to know what's at stake. In my case since what I'm writing is a romance. This is what's at stake. So decide what the stake is in your story. Finding the criminal. Finding a treasure. Seeking revenge. Good versus evil. There are as many stakes as there are ideas. So in the next few weeks, Plot how to find one and how to correct one when it goes astray will be looked at in this blog.
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