Do You Know What A Plot Is?

Written by Nick Vernon


Creative Writing Tips –

What a plot is and what a story is can be sometimes confusing. If you think they arerepparttar same… They are not. A plot isrepparttar 128854 outline of your story. The story is everything included.

I will illustraterepparttar 128855 difference by asking you to visualize two pictures…

1.Visualize a skeleton.

Then

2.Visualize a body.

The skeleton is your plot. It’srepparttar 128856 outline of your story. It won’t be visible when we flesh it out but it will still be there, holding your story together.

The body is your story. It’s everything, which our story will contain, includingrepparttar 128857 plot. The story isrepparttar 128858 plot fleshed out.

What does it mean to ‘flesh it out?’

Let me show you.

I’ll take a brief plot…

A man meets a woman and they fall in love. They encounter great difficulties because their family are againstrepparttar 128859 relationship.

This isrepparttar 128860 outline ofrepparttar 128861 story.

If The Viewpoint Character Is A Secondary Character, Have You Established Who He is?

Written by Nick Vernon


Creative Writing Tips –

I have said above that if a secondary character tellsrepparttar story ofrepparttar 128851 main character, thenrepparttar 128852 spotlight should be kept onrepparttar 128853 main character.

This shouldn’t be taken torepparttar 128854 extreme though.

In other words, you don’t just writerepparttar 128855 story ofrepparttar 128856 main character without telling your readers a bit about your secondary character.

Unlessrepparttar 128857 reader understandsrepparttar 128858 reason a secondary character is tellingrepparttar 128859 story, it will seem peculiar thatrepparttar 128860 main character isn’t telling it himself. It is, after all,repparttar 128861 main character’s story.

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