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Plot, character, and world are all an integral part of story. You don't have a story, if you don't know who lives it and where it takes place. You may not know all the details when you first have ...
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System
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2019-12-08T09:46:23Z (over 4 years ago)
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Biological Stupidity
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2019-12-08T09:46:23Z (over 4 years ago)
# Plot, character, and world are all an integral part of story. You don't have a story, if you don't know who lives it and where it takes place. You may not know all the details when you first have the idea for a story, but you will certainly know in equally general terms who, where, and what happens. From this first idea, the best approach is to # develop all aspects in parallel You may want to work on the world for a while, or develop the characters in more detail, but a character lives in a place, and you cannot develop a character without knowing where he lives. So you will always be working on all three aspects of your story – plot, character, and world – at the same time, even if one of them is momentarily more in the foreground. **If you work on the world without considering plot and character at the same time, your story will lose its integrity.** * * * Note how plot and story are not the same. Plot is the structure of the events. Story is what the reader reads.
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System
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2018-09-09T17:11:12Z (over 5 years ago)
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