{"id":518,"date":"2006-06-23T18:31:18","date_gmt":"2006-06-23T23:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=518"},"modified":"2020-01-02T15:22:29","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T20:22:29","slug":"518","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/518\/","title":{"rendered":"Plot, plot everywhere . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Literary agent <a href=\"http:\/\/pubrants.blogspot.com\/2006\/06\/conflict-is-not-lifetime-movie.html\">Kristin Nelson has an interesting post<\/a> up today about the difference between &#8220;dramatic plot elements&#8221; and conflict. She writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I just want to clarify here that these two things are not the same.<\/p>\n<p>Conflict is what motivates and drives your character (and can be internal and well as external).<\/p>\n<p>Dramatic plot elements are simply events that occur in the story.<\/p>\n<p>Not the same thing. So what I&#8217;m seeing is that writers are confusing the two and making the assumption that if they have a lot of big events in their novels, that&#8217;s enough &#8220;conflict&#8221;\u00a0 to carry the story.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to ask, in her comments, if she&#8217;ll follow this up by elaborating on conflict . . . when she critiqued pitches on <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/TWLAuthorTalks\/\">TWLAuthorTalks<\/a> last week, she mentioned lack of conflict as a major strike against a couple of pitches. It would be interesting to get more insight from her into how successful writers build conflict into their novels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Literary agent Kristin Nelson has an interesting post up today about the difference between &#8220;dramatic plot elements&#8221; and conflict. She writes: I just want to clarify here that these two things are not the same. Conflict is what motivates and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/518\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1309,1308,1088,636,1089,241],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-conflict","tag-dramatic-plot-elements","tag-kristin-nelson","tag-plots","tag-pubrants","tag-writing-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5905,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions\/5905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}