Plot and Character By Randall Andrews eatsleepwrite.net/plotandcharacter I want to go back to my favorite irritating subject – the characters! You have heard me preach time and time again that the plot is what drives the story, even in the heavy “character driven” stories, a story without plot isn’t a story, and you can’t just write a story about characters and come up with a plot because everything before you made the decision was pointless. Argue with me all you want but you don’t go into writing scenes for a living with the idea that your characters will dictate the story. Let’s dispel one myth right now. Your characters don’t write themselves and they don’t control the story. The truth is, YOU control your characters. The reality is, if characters really did have their own autonomy, like life, they would avoid conflict. That’s the natural order, and because of that, your story would be incredibly pointless and rather boring. You as a writer need to be proactive with your characters and the scenes they are in. You need to get away from what might, or could, or should happen, and concentrate on what MUST happen. In fact, if you look at a scene and can honestly answer, “Yes, this scene, if omitted, wouldn’t change the story, then it should be omitted. Every scene needs to build towards the plot. (Mind you, character development, if done properly, does build toward plot.) READ THE REST ON eatsleepwrite.net/plotandcharacter Eat Sleep Write Authors. Sharing. Conversations. Broaden your readership on Eat Sleep Write Submission Guidelines: eatsleepwrite.net/submissions Submissions:eatsleepwrite.net/submissions Poetry Submissions: eatsleepwrite.net/poetrysubmissions Advertising: eatsleepwrite.net/advertising Author Spotlight: EatSleepWrite.net/authorspotlight Twitter: https://twitter/EatSleepWriting Facebook: https://facebook/EatSleepWrite LinkedIn: linkedin/in/adamscull Wattpad: wattpad/user/EatSleepWriteDotNet Pinterest: pinterest/EatSleepWrite/
Posted on: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 02:39:51 +0000
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