If Your Plot Feels Flat, STUDY It! Your Story Might Be Lacking...

If your plot feels flat, STUDY it! Your story might be lacking...

Stakes - What would happen if the protagonist failed? Would it really be such a bad thing if it happened?

Thematic relevance - Do the events of the story speak to a greater emotional or moral message? Is the conflict resolved in a way that befits the theme?

Urgency - How much time does the protagonist have to complete their goal? Are there multiple factors complicating the situation?

Drive - What motivates the protagonist? Are they an active player in the story, or are they repeatedly getting pushed around by external forces? Could you swap them out for a different character with no impact on the plot? On the flip side, do the other characters have sensible motivations of their own?

Yield - Is there foreshadowing? Do the protagonist's choices have unforeseen consequences down the road? Do they use knowledge or clues from the beginning, to help them in the end? Do they learn things about the other characters that weren't immediately obvious?

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222mechanicalgoats

4 weeks ago

Comic with simple digital drawings.
Text: Sometimes I wonder if growing up for people is like this:
Panel 1: Kid pointing at a row of brightly coloured shapes.
Panel 2: The kid smiling with two of the shapes stuck to their body.
Text: But for me it was more like this:
Panel 3: Kid in a dark box with spikes inside.
Panel 4: The kid growing and ending up with indents in them the shape of the spikes.
Panel 5: The box unfolds and opens on the ground. Pim stands up and looks down at their body with spiked indents.

Text: Maybe missing out is a little lonely.
Pim standing in a line-up of people where on either side everyone else has different colourful shapes on them.

Panel 1-2: Pim looking down and noticing something.
Text: But that's okay.
Panel 3: Pim smiling and crouching to pick up a colourful shape on the ground. Other people milling around covered in shapes and picking up new ones. They also have some differently shaped indents.
Text: There's still time.
Watermark: @yeehawpim

I can be shaped by more than the things that hurt me

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222mechanicalgoats

1 year ago

been seeing a couple zero day inspired poems so. throwing my hat into the ring

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222mechanicalgoats

3 years ago

i am so mentally unstable and i am so small

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222mechanicalgoats

1 year ago

i don't usually headcanon sexualities bc i think that's a bit constricting to put on a fictional character but also here me out: bi alex, and aggressively-an-ally straight kyra in a relationship. you say something homophobic and your online bank account squeals in terror.

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i dont ever use it but i live in illinois where the only hills are maybe a meter high 'mound'

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222mechanicalgoats

1 month ago

How am I only just learning this!?

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3 months ago

he would not fucking say that but it’s he would not fucking talk about his queer identity like he was reading out of a college campus lgbt center brochure

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3 months ago

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3 months ago

If you’re unhappy with how the President is handling our country, or even your governor or mayor, I’m going to put these links to these websites for templates on how to write a letter to a government official. Complain to them and let them know that you don’t like how they’re doing things. And maybe suggest what they should do instead. If anything it’ll slow things down so anything that they’ll try to do negatively impact the country and our people will have more time to be counteracted.

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