I was sent this and it made me giggle, yet it made complete sense...:
Plotting is like sex. Plotting is about desire and satisfaction, anticipation and release. You have to arouse your reader's desire to know what happens, to unravel the mystery, to see good triumph. You have to sustain it, keep it warm, feed it, just a little bit, not too much at a time, as your story goes on. That's called suspense. It can bring desire to a frenzy, in which case you are in a good in which case you are in a good position to bring off a wonderful climax.
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Plotting isn't like sex, because you can go back and adjust it afterwards. Whether you plan your story beforehand or not, if the climax turns out to be the revelation that the mad professor's anti-gravity device actually works, you must go back and silently delete all those flying cars buzzing around the city on page one. If you want to reveal something, you need to hide it properly first.
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Hellooooooo Lol I totally forgot aboout Following.. anyhoo... Cha. Plotting is like Sex. Oh yea. XD
I shall, when time allows it, devise some clever or cutting comments about the issue of Plotting v Sex.
ReplyDeleteFor now, however, I shall restrict myself to speaking thus:
"Sex, really? You're talking about sex?! Hmmmm ..."
And with that, I must return to the work I have been avoiding.
Procrastination ... oh, I'll finish that thought tomorrow ...
dC