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what do you consider most important in a story and in general

  1. love

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  2. romance

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  3. sex

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  1. katina

    katina Banned Contributor

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    quick vote

    Discussion in 'Plot Development' started by katina, Feb 3, 2019.

    What do you think is most genuine and interesting in a plot?
     
  2. Some Guy

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    All three??
    Now that is a challenge I am willing to take ;) :p
     
  4. The Dapper Hooligan

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    Well, sex is fun, but is even better when it's with someone you love, and adding a bit of romance in there makes for a swell evening.
     
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    The Dapper you are a class act and thank you for that.
     
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    Yeah, all three have their purpose.
     
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    Together or separate?
     
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    Taking love to include more than just between partners, then love
     
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    All together, feverishly, for half a dozen chapters. Getting my tuple (3+1) in bed took a dozen(?) chapters. :meh:
    Getting them out of bed turns out to be more of a challenge than in. :confused:
     
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  10. mfrankj3@gmail

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    What's a plot?
     
  11. John-Wayne

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    For some reason, this inspired me to go back to another book and start working on it. Is it what I was working on before I joined WF and put on the back

    SG knows what book this is
     
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    Yup. Be cool to see what you got goin on :)
     
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    I feel like they are all interdependent, depending upon what kind of book you are writing/reading. I like to have them all if possible. Sex without love doesn't really grip me. It's more reading for sex than reading for a story. Love without romance is meh, unless you mean like platonic love.
     
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    I'll say LOVE because it's more abstract.
    The others are concrete. They maybe fun but I feel they are in books a lot when there are other relationships that, too me, are more interesting.
     
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    Love, because it is so variable. Person to person, a person's love of a country, love of a place, a memory, a sound, a smell, or even food.
    You can love inanimate objects, animals, teams, hobbies, nature. The list goes on.
     
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    I loved him so much but not as much as I loved America, or Mt Fuji in the springtime, or recollections of the Muppets, or the squeak of a trumpet, nor the scent of my armpits, even Bisto gravy, I suppose. In my lifetime I made love to bicycles, rabbits, the NY Yankee squad, my chess board and a bush among other passions of mine going forward.
     
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    Why is beer not on the list?
     
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    :supercute:I chose love! I LOVE stories full of love which I consider different than romance and of course s8x. I love to see characters who have a deep bonds and much love for eachother. It could be siblings, friends, family or people not even related in anyway who form a love bond without romance. To me it makes for a more interesting plot than the typical boy meets girl romance thing and I find it truly endearing when done correctly.
    I honestly don't see this enough in books which was part of the inspiration for the story I am writing now. It includes two brother with an unshakable bond and love for eachother and a young girl and older Prince who eventually fall in love with eacother like a father/daughter type of relationship. but they develope a really strong bond. I don't think I have any romance or s8x in my story at all. Just pure love!
    I don't know if I explained that correctly but yes. I LOVE love.

    Edit to add: One other topic of interest are bonded love relationships that are so close they are borderline romantic, and the characters in question could be mistaken for a couple but they are not.
     
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    I'm reading 18/19/20c English short stories - it's a collection. Some are stuffy - Thackaray, Trollope kind of thing but gives you an eye for Trollope without having to plough through Trollope's fat novels.

    I cheated a little bit reading the DH Lawrence story early doors, always very passionate from Lawrence, or 'my DH,' properly. One story is by Dorothy Edwards - and that was very pretty. A stuffy old bastard hires an engineer to electrify his house, it was all suggestion:

    'Once again Mr Tooper, the engineer, was promenading the lawn with my wife. Why they felt the necessity to roll in the long grass together I cannot say? "Testing for electrical conductivity" said my little wife, Ebelina.'
     
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