Action! Specifics on Writing Non-Boring Plots
From Write On SC · 00:45:49
Show by Kasie Whitener
So I saw The Crow this week and the reviewer had said it was boring and I went anyway and he was right. But he didn’t say WHY it was boring. I’ll tell you. The action is good – fight scenes, murder, violence, lots of gore and suchness – that was good. But between the action was just conversations. BORING conversations.People just talking stuff over. And it reminded me of some early criticism Rex gave me about the vampire novel. He said, it’s just people talking about stuff, not actually DOING stuff. So, if your story seems boring or other people tell you it is (they won’t but they should) it could be because your characters are just talking. Not DOING.We’re going to use this Reedsy video as the basis for this.“Rising Action” is all the stuff that happens between inciting incident and climax of the story. But what is the “action” part of this?Read more on the blog
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