All good plots come from well-orchestrated characters pitted against one another in a conflict of wills.
Fiction writers come up with some interesting metaphors when speaking of plot. Some say the plot is the highway and the characters are the automobile… - James N. Frey
Fiction writers come up with some interesting metaphors when speaking of plot. Some say the plot is the highway and the characters are the automobile…
- James N. Frey
You will never work through writer's block if you walk away from your typewriter. That will only make it easier to walk away the next time. - James N. Frey
You will never work through writer's block if you walk away from your typewriter. That will only make it easier to walk away the next time.
It has been said that Ernest Hemingway would rewrite scenes until they pleased him, often thirty or forty times. Hemingway, critics claimed, was a ge… - James N. Frey
It has been said that Ernest Hemingway would rewrite scenes until they pleased him, often thirty or forty times. Hemingway, critics claimed, was a ge…
Writer's block is real. It happens. Some days you sit down at the old typewriter, put your fingers on the keys, and nothing pops into your head. Blan… - James N. Frey
Writer's block is real. It happens. Some days you sit down at the old typewriter, put your fingers on the keys, and nothing pops into your head. Blan…
All good plots come from well-orchestrated characters pitted against one another in a conflict of wills. - James N. Frey
It is possible to combine a story line and plot line in the same work. Usually the storylines comes first, serving as a background to the plot line, … - James N. Frey
It is possible to combine a story line and plot line in the same work. Usually the storylines comes first, serving as a background to the plot line, …
To set a forest on fire, you light a match. To set a character on fire, you put him in conflict. - James N. Frey
To set a forest on fire, you light a match. To set a character on fire, you put him in conflict.
For some it is harder to write a novel than to row a bathtub across the North Atlantic. - James N. Frey
For some it is harder to write a novel than to row a bathtub across the North Atlantic.
The opposing missions of the various characters create the plot. - James N. Frey
The opposing missions of the various characters create the plot.
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