[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 600 KB, 906x1200, 1557388518854.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
14586544 No.14586544 [Reply] [Original]

How do I write a good plot for a short story? All I do are either shit or a rip off

>> No.14586571

>>14586544
some people just don't have it

>> No.14586587

fun fact: every story written in the past 2000 years is a ripoff

>> No.14586597

>>14586544
I'd suggest not caring about it being a rip off. In general, and this goes for all productive endeavors, whether it be composing/writing/building/painting/chess-playing, you ought to do something so much that the lower-level stuff becomes automated, ingrained in your fingers, subconsciuos. Of course, try your best to write a good plot, but plots are half-way planned and half-way created as the story goes along, and the better you get at doing the lower-level stuff (creating a scene, creating characters) the more brain power you will have left over for thinking about a plot, and the more material your brain will have to create a plot out of.

>>14586571
cringe
>>14586587
based

>> No.14586612

>>14586544
Write a story about a chef who was asked to make dessert for the king on his 50th birthday and ordered 50 pounds of sugar instead of flour.

>> No.14586826

>>14586544
posting an epic anime picture tells me everything I need to know. leave this board and while youre at it never write again