Tag: plot
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Of Plot, Authenticity, and Knowing Who We Are…
“A story should generate it’s own actions and emotions organically…A story should be authentic…made of stuff that has never been appropriated from other forms of narrative art…other stories…movies or television. Or it has it should be sufficiently re-processed through the author’s unique sensibilities so the resulting work has its own authenticity.” –Peter Selgin, 179 Ways…
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Of Setting, Change, Action, and Dilemmas…
What creates setting, both physical and emotional? And what goes into creating a setting that stimulates a reader to feel? What is the challenge of creating a formative and transformative setting? What needs to remain static and constant in a setting? And what needs to cry out for change? These questions point out the importance…
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Of Revelations, Developments and Hidden Aspects of Personality…
Novels consist of a string of revelations. These revelations, consistently timed and well paced comprise and provide an important part of plot. As such they play and inherent and necessary role in character development. Revelations lead to irrevocable moments wherein the protagonist, when faced with an immediate challenge demanding on the spot response,…
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Motion, Identification and The Inertial Frame of Reference…
“Everything moves. Everything …motion is just a manifestation of going from one spot to another spot in space. When we are trying to understand motion all of the things that we measure from have to come from an inertial frame of reference. An inertial frame of reference is a reference frame that is moving at…
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Of Time, Plot and Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity…
When we think about time, we automatically link it with motion. The most constant things in human history have been the motions of the objects in the universe. So we first figured out how to measure time by figuring how long it took for the various astronomical motions in our solar system. If you move…
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Of Strategizing, Pawns and Plotting…
Playing the game of chess demands that individuals strategize their moves. To accomplish this each player must think ahead, considering what character or pieces they can move upon the chessboard, and to what square, empty or filled by one the opponent’s characters, and then the various moves their opponent can make in response.