Come up with characters who have flaws, and let them fall on their faces every so often. … “Once upon a time they lived happily ever after” is not a story.
– Jenny Wingfield
Tag: plotting
Quotable 72
In nearly all good fiction, the basic – all but inescapable – plot form is this: A central character wants something, goes after it despite opposition (perhaps including his own doubts), and so arrives at a win, lose, or draw.
– John Gardner