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In order to have a plot, you have to have a conflict, something bad has to happen.

I'm very good at plot.

I feel like I know how to write plot.

Plotting is difficult for me, and always has been. I do that before I actually start writing, but I always do characters, and the arc of the story, first... You can't do anything without a story arc. Where is it going to begin, where will it end.

Use plot to buttress a story.

I really don't care about plot. I really, really don't.

There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot.

I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me.

I'm not much of a plotter. I start off with an inciting incident, and in classic crime fiction what happens is that all the action flows from that incident. It's very comfy when it all ties up and feels like a complete universe, but my stuff doesn't always work that way.