Plot

Plot

While you can consider the characters to be your "actors," you still need to know what to do with them. Just like with characters, there is no story without a plot. Otherwise, you have a boring, meaningless piece of writing.

In one of my earlier posts, I discussed on how to write a great beginning to a story. A plot structure commonly has a beginning, middle, and end. To narrow it down even further, a plot has a beginning event, some rising action, some conflicts, a climax, some falling action, a denouement, and a resolution. In layman's terms, start with a low amount of action, build up the action to make it more intense until you reach the climax, and then lower the intensity again. On a grand scale, the climax is the highest point of your story; it's where the final battle begins and progresses. Read any book or watch any movie. Find out where the climax is; the protagonist engaging the antagonist or an event intense enough that the action drops significantly after.

To construct a plot, you have to figure out what your scenes will be and what are they building up to. They need to be relevant to the climax so that the resolution at the end makes sense. With good descriptive language and a high level of interaction between the characters, your plot will do well.

I noticed in my last post that I forgot to mention what the next topic will be, so I won't forget this one. Next time, we'll discuss setting. Until then, see you.