#fucking plot

[mingapace]

Quick little survey about the long one-shot featuring Paddy Mayne x Mulan!AU!Reader. About a third of it already clocks in at over 7k words, so I’m guessing it’ll end up around 20k total.

I’m considering whether to split it into two parts or keep it as a single piece.

What do you think?

Make your choice

Single piece

Two parts

Voting ended onJul 9, 2025

[karalynlovescake]

That point in writing where you're playing tetris in your head with the plot and you know if you can just get a fuckin straight piece it will all immediately fall into line.

But you can't MAKE it give you the right piece so you just have to wait and scream.

[metaandpotatoes]

What we have so far, in the sketch we've worked out—and what many quite good writers never go beyond—is a projected piece of fiction that, if well-written, will be no more than a persuasive imitation of reality. It shows how things happen and may imply certain values, but it does not look hard at the meaning of things. It has no real theme. [...] The writer, in other words, has done the first job done in all serious fiction—[s]he has created a convincing and illuminating sequence of events—but [s]he has not done the second, which is to 'mine deeper!" as Melville says, dig out the fundamental meaning of events by organizing the imitation of reality around some primary question or theme suggested by the character's concern.

”Plotting”, The Art of Fiction by John Gardner

[benjisbento]

Shipping your own OCs outside of the canon you created is such an interesting experience

[sourpatchlevi]

So I was writing out a concept for a story I was going to start writing, but then I realised there was a major plot hole and now I am all bummed out. I know how it fix it, but then I’d have to change part of the story and I am too attached to the current plot to be able to do that....

But at the same time I also thought of another really awesome, really cute story to write and now I have new characters to conceptualize and I am so happy!! 

[enigmaticerror]

[i stayed up like an hour later than I fucking should have.]

[mslanna]

Okay, but what about a plot?

I'm serious. The beginning is pretty pretty, but I do need plot; wizards in space or no. Fuck. I'll never get the hang of this.

[katzirra]

[PUNCHES HOLES IN BIOSHOCK INFINITE'S STORYLINE.]