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Expert Article: The Art of Plotting
For many people plot is the same thing as structure. Both deal with designing the story, creating relationships between its elements and developing how action builds to a climax. When...
Preparations and Consequences: Ways to Incorporate Emotion into the Plot
When characters share emotions with the audience, it deepens the experience of the story. Viewers are made available to the storyteller through emotion: writers seek an emotional connection with their...
The Emotional Pattern of Plot
When we think of plot we usually think in terms of action. Action is driven by what the characters want and the conflict that stands in their way. So the...
Preparations & Consequences: Ways to Incorporate Emotion into the Plot
Plotting Along
For most people, the terms story and plot are synonymous. People read a book or go to a movie and come away saying, What a great story! But the reason...