And I do have one surefire plot I have not and probably never will write because of my fear someone will carry it out.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I never believed I could write anything. No way - write a whole story? Figuring out all that plotting and symbolism? How do you foreshadow things?
Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it.
I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose!
Considerations of plot do a great deal of heavy lifting when it comes to long-form narrative - readers will overlook the most ham-fisted prose if only a writer can make them long to know what happens next.
I never make notes; just a few small details when I'm writing, but nothing much. The plot is never written down. I will tell the story to myself, but I won't plan it. I'll speak the narrative in my head for a while.
I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself.
I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me.
As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes.
I feel like I know how to write plot.