{"id":5115,"date":"2012-04-26T13:01:47","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T20:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/?p=5115"},"modified":"2012-04-26T13:04:55","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T20:04:55","slug":"plot-its-what-happens-after-the-shower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/26\/plot-its-what-happens-after-the-shower\/","title":{"rendered":"Plot: It\u2019s What Happens after the Shower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/KK_ZeroGravityOutcasts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-5116\" style=\"margin: 6px;\" title=\"KK_ZeroGravityOutcasts\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/KK_ZeroGravityOutcasts-189x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"172\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/KK_ZeroGravityOutcasts-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/KK_ZeroGravityOutcasts-647x1024.jpg 647w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/KK_ZeroGravityOutcasts.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 172px) 100vw, 172px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the next installment of craft posts by monthly guest columnist, Kay Keppler. Today she\u2019ll share about plot. You can contact Kay through the Writer\u2019s Fun Zone or at kaykeppler@yahoo.com to ask questions, suggest topics, or tell her she\u2019s off her rocker. (She let me say that!) (I\u2019m so excited out her upcoming new release, <em>Zero Gravity Outcasts<\/em>, due out from Carina Press April 30, 2012. She doesn\u2019t know I\u2019d say that!)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>***<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Everybody knows what plot is, right? It\u2019s action. Action drives stories. Without action, without plot, you\u2019ve got no story. Simple.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But not all actions are equal. For actions to be plot, they must have consequences. Actions without consequences are setting or description. A story needs those things, too. But setting and description aren\u2019t plot.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s look at an example. Early in Charlaine Harris\u2019s <em>Dead Reckoning<\/em>, her character Sookie Stackhouse takes a shower after a tough night waiting tables at the bar. She\u2019s relieved to wash away the grime of her job, and she finds the hot water soothing. As she bathes, she mulls over her most recent set of problems. The shower is the stage setting for Harris to lay out the issues. In this case, the shower is description.<\/p>\n<p>Compare that to the shower scene in <em>Psycho<\/em>. In it, Robert Bloch\u2019s character Marion Crane is bathing to wash away her guilt about embezzling from her employer. We all know what happened in that shower\u2014Marion Crane is brutally murdered. But her disappearance triggers an investigation, which leads to more mayhem. That\u2019s plot.<\/p>\n<p>Not only must your characters\u2019 actions have consequences, you must convince your readers that those consequences are important. Something must be at stake\u2014something of value\u2014for readers to care. Your protagonist can be struggling with an opponent, a force of nature, a set of circumstances, or his own weakness\u2014but readers need to know that the character will gain or lose something in that struggle, and the stakes are huge.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>The concept of struggle is key. Without conflict, there is no plot.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>To write an effective story, you must develop scenes that pit your protagonist against the opposition, either internal or external. You must reveal your characters\u2019 goals and motivations <em>in conflict<\/em>, because motivations without conflict are boring. Who wants to read a story about a kid who\u2019s motivated to get a spot on the football team? And then tries out and gets it? That\u2019s not a story\u2014that\u2019s a newspaper headline.<\/p>\n<p>When you set up your conflict, make the opposition equal to your protagonist. Everybody likes a fair fight. When your kid tries out for the football team, don\u2019t make the opposition the skinny kid who hides the water bottle. Make it the big kid who roughs up our hero, or the parents who want him to try out for chess club, or the girlfriend who wants him to spend more time with her or the teachers who want him to bring up his grades or his doctor who thinks his asthma will kill him. Better yet\u2014make the opposition all of those. Now we\u2019ve got a story.<\/p>\n<p>How can you be sure that your story is big enough, with sufficient conflict, one that readers will enjoy reading and you\u2019ll enjoy writing? Test it! Do you like the story line enough to stick with it if you need a year to complete it? Are you close enough to it emotionally to make it resonate, but not so close that you can\u2019t dig into it?<\/p>\n<p>If so, then ask yourself: does this story have legs? Can it go somewhere? Can you imagine a beginning, a middle, and an end? If all you can see is the beginning and you can\u2019t envision an ending for the protagonist\u2019s problems, shelve this idea for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, ask yourself, what\u2019s at stake? If your protagonist fights the devil for 300 pages, killing angels and guardians, suffering grievous wounds and the loss of family and friends, she better get more out of it than a new pair of sneakers. Unless they\u2019re really, really special sneakers.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s another story. One, I think, that involves a shower.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Kay-Keppler_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-5117\" style=\"margin: 6px;\" title=\"Kay Keppler_3\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Kay-Keppler_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"106\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a>Kay Keppler (<a title=\"Author, Kay Keppler\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kaykeppler.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.kaykeppler.com<\/a>) is an author (<em>Zero Gravity Outcasts<\/em>, <em>Betting on Hope<\/em>) and editor of fiction and nonfiction (<em>Asylum Harbor, Pragmatic Guide to Sass<\/em>) who lives in northern California. Thanks to Ansen Dibell and his book <em>Plot<\/em> (Writer\u2019s Digest Books) for help with this column. Contact her here or at kaykeppler AT yahoo.com to ask questions, suggest topics, or if you prefer, complain.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody knows what plot is, right? It\u2019s action. Action drives stories. Without action, without plot, you\u2019ve got no story. Simple. But not all actions are equal. For actions to be plot, they must have consequences. 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