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The Search for Meaning
The price for plotting? You must search for meaning within your scenes.
Bob and Alice meet up at the local Tex Mex restaurant, and argue about welfare. That’s a plot.
Let’s say Bob is against it, and Alice is for it. You can sit down and just write it, and let the scene develop a life of its own. But without more character dirt, that’s going to be hard to do. You may end up writing a few lines, and just staring at the page. The mere plot may not be enough to sustain your writing.
You need reasons for why the characters believe the things they do. It’s the ultimate question of “Why?”
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