Plot, story and episodes

This is a very good blog! Excellent. Read it.

The biggest problem facing the beginning novelist

Blog post: Anne R. Allen

From the blog: 

E.M. Forster illustrated this in one of his famous lectures on novel-writing:  

• "'The king died and then the queen died' is a story.  
• 'The king died, and then queen died of grief' is a plot."

Anne R. Allen gives six suggestions to help you get the plot. 
Read it. 
Read the whole blog post. 
Finally, she says:

Ask yourself these questions: 

• Could you remove a scene or two and still have the same story outcome? 
• Does the plot build from one inciting incident to an inevitable climax? 
• Do you have both a protagonist and an antagonist? 
• Does the protagonist have a goal that isn't achieved until the end?
• Does your book have three well-defined acts? 

She gives a link to a graphic on the 3-act structure - from Syd Field, author of Screenplay and The Screen Writer's Workbook - as shown on the website of College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn IL, west of Chicago. 

Thank you, Anne. Very helpful.

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