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#plot

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I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats.


Jonathan Franzen


#book #books #down #external #fun

Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters.


Elizabeth George


#characters #deal #essentially #events #grow

I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the story.


John Irving


#almost #always #been #central #century

I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that.


John Eaton


#composers #expecting #follow #get #i

We've always had a love for other places outside the US. I would be right with him. Now that Michael's been vindicated, we all have to be careful... you never know what someone's plotting and planning.


Jermaine Jackson


#be careful #been #careful #had #him

The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.


Iris Johansen


#caught #character #compliment #deal #given

Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then come back to it and work a plot around it.


Paul Kane


#back #best #black #come #down

Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we're the biggest weirdos on the block.


Billy Bob Thornton


#block #couple #every #grave #i

We've plotted through the years of how to get to here, where we are now, or we would have never made it.


George Thorogood


#here #how #made #never #now

We began to do little things, have little scenes where we just talked about things that had nothing to do with the plot. In fact, in the beginning, they didn't want us to do that. But as time went on, you see that in so many shows. I think we were the first to do that.


Don Knotts


#began #beginning #fact #first #had






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