Advanced Brilliant Writing: Make Your Plots Wider And Your Characters Deeper (Go! Write Something Brilliant)
“. . the fun and games.
Your character isn’t going to literally “train for battle,” but rather, be put through a number of tests. Interpersonal challenges. Physical foibles. Through which, we’ll see him have to look inside and make changes.
You’ve Got Mail is a great example of this Training for Battle concept. Remember when our hero is about to meet Kathleen Kelly for the first time in the coffee shop, and he realizes that it’s his nemesis from the “shop around the corner?” (We discussed this s...cene in the Cost portion of the journey.) He then tells her in the next scene that he has a project that will need some “tweaking” before they can get together.
The next forty-five minutes or so of the movie are about that tweaking. He proceeds to “woo” her because he’s realized that once she finds out who he is, she’ll hate him. So, he must make her fall in love with him in the flesh, so that she won’t reject him as her online friend.
This is the guts of the book. And the part of the story that is most easily mis-plotted.MoreLess
Your character isn’t going to literally “train for battle,” but rather, be put through a number of tests. Interpersonal challenges. Physical foibles. Through which, we’ll see him have to look inside and make changes.
You’ve Got Mail is a great example of this Training for Battle concept. Remember when our hero is about to meet Kathleen Kelly for the first time in the coffee shop, and he realizes that it’s his nemesis from the “shop around the corner?” (We discussed this s...cene in the Cost portion of the journey.) He then tells her in the next scene that he has a project that will need some “tweaking” before they can get together.
The next forty-five minutes or so of the movie are about that tweaking. He proceeds to “woo” her because he’s realized that once she finds out who he is, she’ll hate him. So, he must make her fall in love with him in the flesh, so that she won’t reject him as her online friend.
This is the guts of the book. And the part of the story that is most easily mis-plotted.MoreLess
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