Plot Quotes
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The first act is the easiest to plot. The second act is always the hardest to plot. Generally a good, you know, sometimes the third act can be difficult because you can get into a rut in the third act - everybody runs to their Corvette, has a chase, and you catch the bad guy.
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But really, if you ask me, there is only one kid of plot. One. Stuff happens. That's it.
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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I like to allow a story to arise as I'm writing scripts. I find it horrible when I try to think of something for the plot without really being on the ground and seeing where it goes.
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What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?
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I sit in my room at my desk, looking out the window to the yard and waiting for a plot to come to me, to rise slowly in my mind.
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I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward.
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My goal is to write books that are quality books with very real characters and a gripping plot.
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Blair liked to think of herself as a hopeless romantic in the style of old movie actresses like Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. She was always coming up with plot devices for the movie she was starring in at the moment, the movie that was her life.
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I am not an analytical writer. Once I flesh out my characters and decide on the elements of my plot, the story unfolds in my head almost as though it was a movie reel.
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Spy plots are hard, really hard.
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There is no 'right' way to begin a novel, but for me, plot has to wait. The character comes first.
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God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.
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Plots are ... what the writer sees with.
