At the risk of sounding like a broken record, if you read my post from last week “Digging for Characters,” well… second verse, same as the first. When it comes to plot – whether coming up with the first draft, or going through it in revision – it needs to resonate with me, with my [...]

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In the competitive world of writing programs and the marketing end of publishing, plot-driven writing, often referred to by the glib word ‘commercial’—as if it is designed to sell you something—is sneered at. Literary writing—where ontological investigations of the self and existence flow out of characters in lyrical prose—is the glowing standard to which all [...]

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         We are on our 3rd week looking at the craft of writing. This week we are supposed to discuss plot. Plot is something I struggle with. I write my characters so they learn and grow, make friends and fall in love and do all sorts of exciting things. But it becomes [...]

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