Episode 55: How To Write A Plot That Sucks People In
If you tried to diagram the plots in the Vampire Diaries TV show, you’d end up with an untamed squiggle
Plots are one of the most important parts of storytelling. They carry our characters forward, and they force our heroes to make choices and to change along the way. Every story has a plot, whether it's about saving the world of making a cup of tea. So why is it so hard to come up with a decent plot? We talk about good and bad plots, and offer advice about how to write the best ones.
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Definitions of the word "plot"
A "macguffin" is a plot device that everyone is looking for
Raiders of the Lost Ark (movie)
Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker (movie)
Alien (movie)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (movie)
spoilers are plot details that people find out in advance
The Flash (TV series)
Professor Zoom (Flash villain)
Philip Marlowe (fictional detective)
Lord Peter Wimsey (fictional detective)
Spenser (fictional detective)
Ross MacDonald (mystery author)
The Vampire Diaries (TV series)
Crisis on Infinite Earths (comics crossover)
Spider-Man (superhero)
The Incredible Hulk (comic)
Sense8 (TV series)
A Song of Ice and Fire (book series)
George R.R. Martin (author)
All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders (book)
Untitled young-adult novel by Charlie Jane Anders (book)
Children of Men (movie)
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (book)
We3 (comic)
The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz (book)
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz (book)
Pompeii was full of pictures of dicks
Veronica Mars (TV series)