Friday, May 3, 2013

Plotting

Read 2 Chronicles 19-21

2 Chronicles 20:12 "O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee."

Plotting should be a lot easier than it is. How hard is it to figure out what comes next in a story we are writing?

If we were content to write boring, unsaleable stories, we could get through our word counts quickly. Have our characters eaten breakfast? Maybe it’s time for them to eat lunch.

Our difficulty is because we want exciting things to happen to our characters. We want to find ways for them to fight their way out of plausible situations to make them strong at the story’s end and to keep our readers up at night until they reach the end.

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