I think situations are more important than plot and character.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important.
Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters.
I'm always writing about character first. Plot, such as it is, comes from the characters.
Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot.
I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I don't believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it.
I believe the most intricate plot won't matter much to readers if they don't care about the characters, especially in a series. So I try to focus hard on making each character, whether villain or hero, have an interesting flaw that readers can relate to.
There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic and is very challenging to describe.
I think that ultimately any effective drama or tragedy tries to put you as much as it can into the protagonist's shoes.
Plot and character are virtually the same thing.
I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are.