So what do you think? What aspect of a story do you believe is most crucial? Please be as specific as you like.
I always find this quite interesting. =P
I always find this quite interesting. =P
February 10th, 2008 at 10:29pm
I couldn't agree more. Relevance is so necessary to a proper plot line. It's a bit more difficult to accomplish, but I do love writing in which everything has meaning, a purpose to the actual story.
- Seventh:
- "if there's a gun in the room in Act one Scene one, it had BETTER have been used by Act three."
you should never write anything that isn't relevent to your character development or plotline. unless you're deliberatly misleading the reader, in which case it IS relevent to the plot, in a way, hehe.
anything else is just boring padding.
I actually think characterization overrules plot...:shifty:
- druscilla; flatlined:
- The most important part of a story is as follows:
a) Talent.
b) Everything else.
c) Tone.
d) Plot.
e) Characters.
f) Backstory.
So many people ignore backstory. It's extremely important. Characters need to be well-rounded. Tone needs to be maintained. Plot needs to be well thought out and not overly dramatic. You need to be able to write. When I took Creative Writing in school my teacher told us the only way to get an A in the class was that you had to have the talent of a writer. If you didn't have that, you could manage a B.
I'm more likely to read a story with a kickass plot and not the most well-developed characters. That's why I put it above. I agree that amazing characters are important, but I rarely read stories unless they have an amazing plot so that's why I put it first. I'm picky.
- Testicle Soup.:
I actually think characterization overrules plot...:shifty:
- druscilla; flatlined:
- The most important part of a story is as follows:
a) Talent.
b) Everything else.
c) Tone.
d) Plot.
e) Characters.
f) Backstory.
So many people ignore backstory. It's extremely important. Characters need to be well-rounded. Tone needs to be maintained. Plot needs to be well thought out and not overly dramatic. You need to be able to write. When I took Creative Writing in school my teacher told us the only way to get an A in the class was that you had to have the talent of a writer. If you didn't have that, you could manage a B.
I mean, obviously talent is the most important thing, as with everything, but kickass characters can really make a mundane/clichéd plot shine.
You can have the most hugely imaginative plot, but if it's got under-developed, two-dimensional characters, the whole thing just falls flat on its face.
-shrugs-
This.
- This.Useless.Heart.:
- It's all important, but I think if you don't have characters you don't have a story. I don't care what happens to no one. I also don't care what happens to a person/creature/etc. that you don't make me care about, so character development is incredibly crucial. Also, personally, writing characters thoughts, feelings, dialogue, etc. and character development is my favorite to write so... yeah.