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Amanda Apthorpe

Write Compelling Plots

We are enthralled by stories — tales told around the campfire, acted on stage, written down, filmed, painted, danced and sung. Why? Because we want to be entertained, to be inspired, to escape, to enter virtual worlds, to understand and to relate to others like and unlike ourselves.

It’s said that there are only seven storylines, but those seven have generated an extraordinary number of tales because their creators have told them from their own perspectives, their own point of difference.

The fourth book in Amanda Apthorpe's Write This Way series, 'Write Compelling Plots’, identifies the difference between plot and story, guides external and internal structural organisation and explains the significance of the narrative arc. You will discover how your central character’s desire, their limitations and their fear entwine to create the conflict that will drive your story. Drawing on the content within these pages, and your own point of difference, you too can create compelling plots.

In addition, this book explores the elements of setting and description. Part 3: Editing Toolbox identifies and corrects common editing errors in creative writing.
85 printed pages
Original publication
2022
Publication year
2022
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  • Anahas quotedyesterday
    STORY

    If someone asked you to give an overview of what your fictional piece is about, you’d tell them the STORY – the entirety of what happens to your characters who inhabit the world you have created. The who, the what and the where. Put simply, story is a series of events recorded in their chronological order.

    PLOT

    Now if that same person asked you more – the why, or how, or when (sounds like they might be invested in it, doesn’t it), and you told them the series of events that were necessary for that story to unfold, and how the story is delivered, then you are telling them the PLOT. Put simply, a plot is a series of events deliberately arranged to reveal their dramatic, thematic, and emotional significance.

    E.M. Forster put it like this: The king died then the queen died. Story. The king died then the queen died of grief.
  • Anahas quotedyesterday
    Before we immerse into conflict (I know, I know … sounds awful doesn’t it!), let’s distinguish between the terms: ‘story’ and ‘plot’.
  • Anahas quotedyesterday
    it’s the conflicts that arise that make a story interesting.

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