Plotting has been kicking my butt the last week or so. My critique partners have knocked one too many holes in my plot so I finally have to do a big revision before I can move forward. Writing is hard. :(
www.learner.org (and elsewhere on the internet) has some good tips for plot. The following elements need to go into a plot:
- Exposition is the information needed to understand a story.
- Complication is the catalyst that begins the major conflict.
- Climax is the turning point in the story that occurs when characters try to resolve the complication.
- Resolution is the set of events that bring the story to a close.
My problem (in novel-length) fiction is I need to keep making the complications greater and greater for the protagonist, until she reaches her
dark moment--when it looks like she may not survive (literally and/or figuratively). I tend to give the protagonist a problem and then she solves it, and then she gets another problem and solves it, etc.
Hhm. I need to put on my thinking cap...
How do you come up with a good plot?
Good luck with your writing!
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