#(plot)

[thechekhov]

I've had this little idea in my head for a while now, so I decided to sit down and plot it out.

Disclaimer: This isn't meant to be some sort of One-Worksheet-Fits-All situation. This is meant to be a visual representation of some type of story planning you could be doing in order to develop a plot!

Lay down groundwork! (Backstory integral to the beginning of your story.) Build hinges. (Events that hinge on other events and fall down like dominoes) Suspend structures. (Withhold just enough information to make the reader curious, and keep them guessing.)

And hey, is this helps... maybe sit down and write a story! :)

[literaryvein-references]

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[escespace]

To whoever first wrote that Merlin is only clumsy because he has to make a conscious effort and always invest a lot of energy to not allowing his magic to be instinctive : Thank you! That concept always lives in my mind for free

[sonic-pja]

A door left ajar | 01

// Next

Right after this prologue

Chapter list

Something has been bugging me since the beginning of the story, so I want to dive a little deeper into these two.

[elumish]

I think one of the most fundamental plot failures I see across a lot of books is that the person chosen to solve a problem is not a person who it makes sense to choose to solve this problem.

This ends up being true for a lot of YA books where the teenager is the chosen solution to a problem because they need to be for plot reasons, but there is no actual logical reason why anyone would be relying on them to solve this problem (or often even letting them get close to this problem). No, this kid can't work for the FBI or the Secret Service. No, this twelve-year-old won't be a more accomplished soldier than a fully-trained servicemember. No, this kid isn't allowed to practice medicine.

And you can work around this by presenting a reason for them to be involved despite being less qualified--usually that they put themselves in a situation, despite the adults around them, but also that there is something else that makes them suited to a job/role despite their other lack of qualifications (we need someone who can blend in, etc.).

But it's also true for a lot of adult books. I'm reading a book where the ER doctor/medical professor First Gentleman is going to lead the response to a plane full of people who potentially have Marburg virus, and even ignoring the fact that he wouldn't be allowed within a thousand feet of that plane by the Secret Service, that also fundamentally just does not make sense with how U.S. pandemic and quarantine response work (or even how medicine works--an ER doctor is generally not an infecious disease specialist). It's waved away for plot reasons--but it also represents a failure of the plot as a whole.

Why is your character the one who is trying to solve this problem? Is it their job? If it's not their job, what does it mean for the story for them to be trying to solve a problem that they aren't qualified for, may not have access to, and/or aren't allowed to deal with?

If your only answer is "it works because it needs to work for plot reasons" then it doesn't work at all.

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Writing References: Plot

Basics: Plot Structure & Narrative Arcs

Basics: Plot & Other Elements of Creative Writing

Plot Methods: Save the Cat! ⚜ The Story Circle

Plot Development: The Transformation Test

Plot-Driven Story ⚜ Plotting a Novel ⚜ Plot-Planning Worksheet

Plot Twists ⚜ Types of Plot Twists ⚜ Subplots

Ten Story Genres ⚜ Elements of the 10 Story Genres

The 3-Act Structure: History & Elements ⚜ A Guide

The Shape of Story ⚜ The Shapes of Stories by Kurt Vonnegut

Tips

From Margaret Atwood ⚜ From Rick Riordan

Before Writing your Novel ⚜ Burying Information

How to Get "Unstuck" when Writing your Novel

Editing

Chapter Maps ⚜ Editing your Own Novel

Plot Holes & Other Structural Issues ⚜ Structural Edit

Self-Editing ⚜ Novel Editing

For Inspiration

Archetypal Narrative Arcs ⚜ Character & Literary Tropes

Snowflake Method ⚜ Ways to Generate an Idea

More References: Character Development ⚜ World-building

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[ask-cupbros-parents]

How to destroy the Soul Contract ?

Burn it with HELL FIRE 🔥

Some context:

Walter successfully tricked the Devil to destroy Utena’s Soul Contract.

[parasolladyansy]

DxP REWRITE - A Most Precious Gift

Call back to “A Gift” in the Prologue as we come full circle. I thought about how I was going to express this moment - hoping I did it justice. ;u;

🔼 Diamond x Pearl REWRITE 🔽

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[goddessofbees]

Sup, after some long hard poll decisions, It has been decided that my DanDad AU is a DC crossover and with the additional Dan x Jason Todd! So in the spirit of that I made more DanDad AU with some explanation of where I was going with it, ( yes I did draw Dan pregnant, if you hadn't thought the implications of that then oh well)

If anyone wants to add on to this you're welcome too!

This is the night they met! Roy and Kory took Jason out to a bar and that's where they met

I imagine after the whole death of the Fentons and the GIW, the portal has been shut down and Dan hasn't seen Frostbite after he started incubating Danny and Dani, so without realizing and after gaining a second set of DNA Danny and Dani now have Jason as their parent. Dan figures this out after seeing Frostbite for the first time during his pregnancy.

Jason is now even more willing to murder if you touch his kids!

They kept their original names but I thought Jason should get to name their middle name (Jason took Dan's last name)

[asksavel]

The End

( Alt Youtube Link (way higher quality) )

Cameo's under the cut:

Solavi and Levas's Wedding:

Traveller - @/askthetraveller Cedric - @/monifandoms Dawn, Dusk and Twilight - @morva-doodles Serra - @askteamspirit

Late night Visitors:

Omni - omniandco Janus - @ask-mirage-mews

Hospital professionals:

Agatha - @neverlandfaerai Robin - @book-of-legends Acacia - @bugsofpetalroot Ami - @ask-dream-fighters Claire -@/iamyourdoubt Elara - @ask-404dungeonnotfound Cream - @guardians-of-dreams Lalu - @asklalu Minerva - @phantomguild Primrose - @/monifandoms Sarah - @ask-sarah-and-co Satchet - @soulspectrum RJ.EXE - @/askthecanvasguardians Tai - @/parnikkapore

And patients:

Joule - @dailyashleighraichu Elliot - @ask-elliotgang

Town visitors:

Jolly - @/ask-dream-fighters Annalise - @ask-pokecats Curce - @/curce Cipher - @themeowsticvigilante Gemini - @askthehalfshiny Snow - @ask-a-learning-ai Nancy - @/ask-dream-fighters

Therapy office and patrons:

Chime - @askchimeknight Walter - @office-pokemons Tsubayuki - @askiceboundlopunny Sunny - @churchofyolk Bijoux - @redolentgrove Kane - @a-shy-mimiktwo Ninetails - ifbench Destino - @ask-the-royal-absol Simon - @ask-prince-manaphy

Town visitors (part 2)

Scarlett - @psychicduo Lenox - @askbohemiancompany Rosemary - @noblejanobii Sai - @askpokemoncrossover Shinji - @pmd-waveringfate Abigail - Office-pokemons

Notra and Antono's Concert:

Mariko - Askstormscall Zhen and Abigale - @lustrous-dawn Ginjiro - @symphonies-of-silver Rimi, Edin and Noelle - @ask-the-shiny-pokemons Rayden - @johto-succession

Pop - @pokege-ne-project Medley - @harmonia-university Linda - askiceboundlopunny Sophie - @team-pokefriends

Wandering Traveller:

Diane - @ask-diane

Flying with Savel:

Amber - ask-dream-fighters Copper Bloom - @diamond-and-pearl Niel - @askthe-eleazars Persues - @poniquest Quetzal - @asktheisle Solblitz and Vayu - pmd-waveringfate Theory - @iamyourdoubt Vela - @askwish

In the Forest:

Mollie - @the-reborn-ancestor-project Armani and Gabriel - noblejanobii Althaea - @pokitsune Hazel - @batwing1012 Wo-Chien - @/the-feral-one Serafina - @/ask-serafinas-harem Nick - @/thestaticsquirrel Vourison - @/morva-doodles Zephyr - @/askteamspirit Nova - @/occasionally-adventuring Kaine - @/ask-my-memoir Eclipse - Nova

Celebrating on Mt. Moon:

Quetzalcoatl - @/sphaeramjourney Riley - @/brokenpokeworld Shauna - @/ask-a-silvy Van Livine - @/askthe-eleazars

Ultraviolet - @/distortionmewtwo Morris - @/askleaderscrest Luelle - @/darling-zorua Loki - @/redolentgrove Skarla - @/megamannickblog Osseth - @/morva-doodles Zantsu - @/ask-suicune Mochi - @/inaris-pokemon-world

Thank you to everyone who loaned me your wonderful characters. ;v;~ I can't tag everyone because of Tumblr's limits, sadly, but I hope all those who contributed see it!

[dionysiaproductions]

[fixyourwritinghabits]

Me, infodumping about all the characters, plot points and intricate plot twists to my friends: *writing at 10000 words per second* Me, actually trying to write the story: *staring at a blank word document for 3 hours* Do you have a cure for such a condition?

It gets a lot of flack (not unjustified), but the Save the Cat Beat Sheet is truly great for figuring out how to get a plot on paper. You do not have to follow it to the letter, but it does give you definite goals to meet when trying to figure out where to go next.

Other popular plot outline structure's include:

Dan Harmon's Story Circle

The Snowflake Method

The Hero's Journey

Dan Wells' 7-Point Structure

And many mooooooore. Any plot structure that works for you is great, but keep in mind, you might have to try out more than one.

Save the Cat worked great for me and that's what I recommend the most, but my final draft isn't rigidly structured to its beat sheet. What I really needed was a starting point, and once I got a first draft down, I was able to figure out where to go.

[thatsbelievable]

[elumish]

I think one of the biggest and most overlooked things to keep in mind when writing is: is how/what I am writing accomplishing what I am trying to accomplish?

Part of why so many writing "rules" don't work for everyone is that they're assuming you're trying to accomplish things that you're not trying to accomplish.

This way of thinking is applicable at every level and every step of your writing process.

Is this plot structure telling the story I want to be telling?

Does this scene evoke the emotion I am hoping to evoke?

Does this sentence mean what I intend it to mean, in a way that is likely to be read with that meaning by most readers?

If something in a story is jarring, for example, it's probably because that piece isn't accomplishing what you're otherwise trying to accomplish in the story.

When I talked about finding epithets jarring in a close third person POV, it's because what epithets do (provide distance from the character) inherently conflicts with what the point of view was intending (intimacy with the POV character).

If a scene or moment is jarring or just feels wrong in a book, it may be because it doesn't match the tone you are otherwise trying to cultivate, it breaks or escalates the tension in a way that you aren't intending, or it has a different narrative feeling than you are intending with the book.

Even down to the grammatical level, you can get away with breaking a lot of grammar rules if you can accomplish what you want to accomplish with the sentence. Is it coherent? Does it have the meaning you intend? Does it have the clarity or ambiguity that you are intending? Does it fit the tone that you are going for?

The same idea holds for the message/implication level. If you are implying or stating something in your story, is it what you mean to be implying or stating? If you are mimicking or subverting stereotypes, is it in a way that accomplishes what you are trying to accomplish?