Sunday, December 19, 2010

The dreadful time of finals has ended at last, and I am going home tomorrow! Today I finally summoned the courage to open my story files, which have gone completely untouched in the last month (and a nightmarish month it was. It went like this: Thanksgiving break=research/reading time for classes, last week of classes/doing non-final papers & presentations, reading week/finals, and exam week/finals), and peeked. Eep. It's going to take some effort to get back onto whatever train of thought I had been taking.

The thing with plots is that if they're well done, they look so easy. The best plots are the ones that aren't forced. They're natural and build out of the other elements present in the story. But when you're plotting, oftentimes the other elements come later, in hindsight. Or sometimes they don't come at all. Then you have Plot-FAIL. Which is where my train is headed if I don't turn it around.