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Challenge plot, the Connection plot, and the Creativity plot.
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In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized.
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Numbers speak, drawings visualize.
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PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.
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I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.
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Life plots elegantly.
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Plot is merely the mechanism by which your character is forced up against her deepest fears and desires.
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In order to have a plot, you have to have a conflict, something bad has to happen.
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Done any exciting sums lately?"
"I don't just do sums," Miles told her. "There's much more to my life than that."
"Is there?" Alicia asked, trying to sound interested.
"Yes," said Miles. "Sometimes I draw graphs.
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Spy plots are hard, really hard.
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We don't experience our lives as plots. If I asked you to tell me what your last week was like, you're not really gonna give me plot. You're gonna give me sort of linked narrative. And I wanted to see how do we bring that into fiction without losing the reader.
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Plot is not my forte. It's like I have to live in my head in the book for a while before I figure out what the story is ... My process is a bit messier.
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Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained.
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I describe my plots as follows; A character is walking down the street when all of a sudden a piano falls on them. They spend the rest of the story digging out from under that piano. How they dig, how long and how well, this all depends entirely on the character.
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Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton. It is how you 'flesh out and clothe' your structure that makes each story unique.
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Oh! think what anxious moments pass between
The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods.
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The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.
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I have a plot, but not much happens.
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All plots are cliche.
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The plot thickens ... I didn't even know we had a plot on this trip.
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Storytelling is as natural as breathing; plotting is the literary version of artificial respiration.
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Details are where a theory can be held together or fall apart. The same is true about a plot.
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I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me.
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To figure out a strange plot, look at what happens, then ask who benefits.
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I like fast plots with things that explode.
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Oh what would Rome be without a plot?
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That's the trouble with you readers. You know all the plots.
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Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.
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LIFE HAS NO PLOT, WHY MUST FILMS OR FICTION?
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Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.
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Figures are clear and open, they hold nothing hidden, no secret they will not tell.
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Plot was always secondary in my mind.
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When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.
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A plot is two dogs and one bone.
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I don't think I'm a natural novelist. Plot is definitely one of my weaker points. I've been working on it a long time, and it's not getting much better.
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Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.
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How plotless real life was!
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Everything is some kind of a plot, man.
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Motivation is the power behind plot.
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A good plot is like a dream.
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All the characters and plots were predetermined. Games make bad plots.
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There are stories that don't need a plot. Sooner or later they rise above the confusion and untangle their mysteries in a series of sentences.
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Plot, or evolution, is life responding to environment; and not only is this response always in terms of conflict, but the really great struggle, the epic struggle of creation, is the inner fight of the individual whereby the soul builds up character.
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All well and good, but for our purposes these otherwise-valuable insights are mere subplots almost designed to carry us down side trails while blithely humming a tune about the rough equivalence of forests and trees.
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I love a well-plotted story. But I'm just not that kind of writer, and it's not necessarily by choice. When I manipulate plot, I feel I lose authenticity.
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Plot is a framework on which to drape other things. So once that's working, I can just let it go and do all the stuff that I love - 'Trojan horse' it. There are so many great YA heroines, and that's fantastic, but what about the emotionally complex boy out there? That's who I tend to write about.
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My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end.
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Plot is the structure of revelation.
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The thick plottens.
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Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.
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I have a superstition that if I talk about plot, it's like letting sand out of a hole in the bottom of a bag.
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Probably careful plotting reflects my personality. I am meticulous by nature. I can't imagine speed-writing anything that happens to pop into my head.
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When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect.
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I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are.
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Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.
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At three and four and five, children may not be able to follow complicated plots and subplots. But the narrative form, psychologists now believe, is absolutely central to them.
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There was no plot ... and I discovered it by mistake.
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As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.
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Plot and character are virtually the same thing.
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Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built. Rather characterization is inseparable from plot.
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The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things.
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A graphic is never an end in itself; it is a moment in the process of decision making.
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As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes.
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If you spend enough time with your characters, plot simply happens.
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Plot does not simply move with time, but spreads out conceptually in metaphorical space.
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Anyway, you don't know what's going to happen. I'm only just thickening the plot.
I'd say it was pretty thick already.
Thick plots are my specialty. If you want a thinner kind, look elsewhere.
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Any plot you impose on your characters will be onomatopoetic: PLOT. I say don't worry about plot. Worry about the characters. Let what they say or do reveal who they are, and be involved in their lives, and keep asking yourself, Now what happens? The development of relationship creates plot.
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The romance is the primary plot in a story that has two plots. The second plot is not a subplot, but one that is interwoven with the romance plot (if that makes sense.) A story needs compelling characters in a compelling plot.
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It seems to me that more plots have been imagined than really exist.
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Draw what you see.
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I want the situations and plots to be surprising and unusual.
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I believe in creative visualization.
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I've got to formulate a plot or end up in jail or shot, success is my only option, failure's not.
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As a reader I like both great characterization and fast moving plots. The challenge is to balance the both and not compromise one for the other.
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Poetry taught me a great deal about language and images, but when it came to plotting, I was stumped. It's been very much a learn-by-doing thing for me.
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There are a limited number of plots (some say seven, some say twelve, some say thirty). There is no limit to the number of stories.
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While my writing does seem to ultimately have a lot to do with pantsing in the end, without the plotting, I'd get nowhere to begin with.
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The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst possible thing I can do to *this* guy?' And then do it.
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Plots behind plots, plans behind plans. There was always another secret.
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So this is the only TV show in America where I am quite confident that you, the audience, will share my excitement when I tell you that coming up in our next segment, we have the best graph ever. Best graph ever.
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When I am thickening my plots, I like to think 'What if ... What if ... ' Thus my imagination can move from the likely, which everyone can think of, to the unlikely-but-possible, my preferred plot.
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I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward.
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Plot comes first. The plot is the archictecture of your novel. You wouldn't build a house without a plan. If I wrote without a plot, it would just be a pile of bricks. Characters are your servants. They must serve your plot.
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visualization is not something that happens on a page or on a screen; it happens in the mind
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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise be hidden.
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The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures
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I never make a note of anything; I never even write a plot down.
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It was a challenge for me to do a plot because I'd been an essayist and a journalist. I had to be vigilant about moving things along and being entertaining.
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Without stupid, there is no plot.
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I am a great believer that all the primary research has to be done before principle writing begins. I'm a huge advocate of plotting.
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The characters write the plot. Their natures do.
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We don't usually start out with a plot that we can pitch in two lines. We spend a year brainstorming and discussing ideas that are sometimes of a visual nature, sometimes just about characters and then we try to structure the story.
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I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest.
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Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose.
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I start with an image, then I go from the image toward exploring the situation. Then I write a scene, and from the scene I find the character, from the character I find the larger plot. It's like deductive reasoning - I start with the smaller stuff and work backward.
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Plot is tremendously important to me: I can't stand books where nothing happens, and I can't imagine ever writing a novel without at least one murder.
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A strong enough situation renders the whole question of plot moot, which is fine with me. The most interesting situations can usually be expressed as a 'what-if' question ...
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The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God.