Post by account_disabled on Nov 29, 2023 4:25:36 GMT
This tweet from Veronica made me think a lot, because it contains an almost absolute truth. I say almost because there is nothing absolute, but still that is a truth to deal with every time we start writing a story. I'm planning my famous novel K., which every now and then I bring back from the mists of time, I've written 3 pages full of plot and I haven't finished yet. The conclusion is missing. That plot, the division of the novel into 3 parts and a series of events for each, I know is temporary. The plot is the writer's choice Plot is what the writer wants the characters to do. ~Lillian Hellman K.'s plot is necessary, as it is for any other story, because for me it contains a series of guidelines that, in fact, will guide me from the beginning to the end of the story.
It's not a novel I can write in one go and – I'm sorry, dear King – I don't intend to write any in one go. So the plot is my choice: I had the idea of K. and I built a story around it, I created characters, I placed them in a historical-geographical context, I created desires, obstacles, enemies, changes. But all this does not make K. a story. Not yet. That plot gives me, every time I read it, the idea of the story as a whole, as if it were a cocoon waiting to Phone Number Data transform and live a life of its own. I can intervene on that plot as I want and that's what I do when I decide to pick up that novel again. For simplicity, the events are all developed in a linear way, but when the plot is concluded, I will create a plot and have the overview of my story, i.e. the still raw work. I'm still the one who decides everything, I'm the one who runs the game.
The story is a choice of the characters Story is what the characters want to do. ~Lillian Hellman The story is something else entirely. I see it when I finish a story and it never proceeds as I planned. It must also be said that when I write short stories, my plots are usually two or three lines at most, the rest is quick writing. But I don't feel like it for a novel. In the story, exactly what Veronica says happens, the characters take over and lead the game. They follow my guidelines, they are forced to do so because I am the one who inserts them into the pages, but then they draw other lines in the plot, some subtle, others more pronounced.
It's not a novel I can write in one go and – I'm sorry, dear King – I don't intend to write any in one go. So the plot is my choice: I had the idea of K. and I built a story around it, I created characters, I placed them in a historical-geographical context, I created desires, obstacles, enemies, changes. But all this does not make K. a story. Not yet. That plot gives me, every time I read it, the idea of the story as a whole, as if it were a cocoon waiting to Phone Number Data transform and live a life of its own. I can intervene on that plot as I want and that's what I do when I decide to pick up that novel again. For simplicity, the events are all developed in a linear way, but when the plot is concluded, I will create a plot and have the overview of my story, i.e. the still raw work. I'm still the one who decides everything, I'm the one who runs the game.
The story is a choice of the characters Story is what the characters want to do. ~Lillian Hellman The story is something else entirely. I see it when I finish a story and it never proceeds as I planned. It must also be said that when I write short stories, my plots are usually two or three lines at most, the rest is quick writing. But I don't feel like it for a novel. In the story, exactly what Veronica says happens, the characters take over and lead the game. They follow my guidelines, they are forced to do so because I am the one who inserts them into the pages, but then they draw other lines in the plot, some subtle, others more pronounced.