What's the difference between plot' and story'?
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What's the difference between plot' and story'?
Russell Celyn Jones (Published writer. Professor of Creative Writing and Director of the MA Programme at Birkbeck College (University of London).) gives expert video advice on: What's the difference between plot' and story'?; Do I need to know the ending before I begin?; Are there rules for structuring a novel? and more...
I'd prefer the word story to the word plot. Plot seems to me something imposed by the author upon his or her characters. Story is something that comes about organically from the characters that you've created. And story is another word for narrative, and narrative is a crucial part of fiction. Inventing story is the art of writing fiction and great novels tend to have great stories.
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