Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. Plot is observed after the fact rather than before. It cannot precede action. It is the chart that remains when an action
is through. That is all Plot ever should be. It is human desire let
run, running, and reaching a goal. It cannot be mechanical. It can
only be dynamic. So, stand aside, forget targets, let the characters, your fingers, body, blood, and heart do.
Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.
Stephen KingTags: writing on-writing story plot
Does Batman ever NOT have a plan...?
Mark WaidTags: comics plot comic plan batman superhero graphic-novel
The person you are (in total, at that moment in time) is what creates the story you're writing. It's infused in every piece of punctuation, in the plot, in the most minor character who crosses the page. It's all your voice.
Victor LaValleTags: inspirational plot voice character-development narrative-perspective
Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine felt safe with a nineteenth century novel. There were going to be people in it. Something was going to happen to them in a place resembling the world. Then too there were lots of weddings in Wharton and Austen. There were all kinds of irresistible gloomy men.
Jeffrey EugenidesTags: reading books literary-criticism novels plot postmodernism narrative literary-theory semiotics victorians nineteenth-century
You have to have a plot too, you know? Because without it, your life is less of a story and more of an empty paper.
Nema Al-Araby...my novels are like life - I never know where they're going until I get to the end...
John GeddesTags: life purpose endings plot
...you mean you don't fit characters into a plot? excatly...
John GeddesTags: writing characters novels plot
Don't resist the urge to burn down the stronghold, kill off the main love interest or otherwise foul up the lives of your characters.
Patricia HamillTags: writing storytelling plot
I did it thirty-five minutes ago.
Alan MooreTags: evil apocalypse plot mastermind ozymandias
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