tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7224206690870340098.post5795034120970723494..comments2023-10-12T05:32:56.675-04:00Comments on Manuscripts Burn: Plotting vs. That Other ThingStephen Kozeniewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185600045044927669noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7224206690870340098.post-23294909422660551782011-08-18T21:10:31.417-04:002011-08-18T21:10:31.417-04:00Thank ye kindly.Thank ye kindly.Stephen Kozeniewskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185600045044927669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7224206690870340098.post-21427079176576951462011-08-11T22:41:30.562-04:002011-08-11T22:41:30.562-04:00A woman I know is trying to be a published author....A woman I know is trying to be a published author. Whenever we hangout, she tells me that whatever activity we are doing gives her ideas for a story and then she starts writing it. Sometime later, I ask her how the story is going. She tells me it is progressing very well and that she's really happy with it. I then ask her what is the plotline of the story. And she always says "Oh, I haven't gotten to that yet. Something will turn up." <br /><br />I really hate it. Whenever I read her work, I just get annoyed. The endings are always terrible because it didn't come out of the sequence of events told in the rest of the story or because it doesn't even have an ending, the story just stops with no real rhyme or reason.<br /><br />I definitely agree that stories need to grow organically and there are some writers who can just put words on paper and the results will amuse me, despite it not being a proper story but a real story needs to go somewhere. It doesn't have to go somewhere I expect but if you have no idea where your story is going, then why did you ask for my time to tell me this story.<br /><br />In conclusion, I agree with you whole heartedly.Stephen Rudmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01686235167753062592noreply@blogger.com