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Learn the art of turning a story into a compelling plot. Understand the importance of profluence and discover how to create cause and effect relationships to keep readers engaged. Practice by creating a plot for the traditional story of Putri Mandalika in Lombok.
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Introduction to Plot • It is easy to think that stories occur naturally in the world, like fruit langing from a tree, and that all a writer has to do is pluck them. But the reality is more complicated than that. • All fiction must also posses a quality of PROFLUENCE. This is a feeling you have when you’re reading a novel or short story. A book or a story needs to give reasons for the reader to keep turning the pages.
Defining a Plot • John Gardner called plotting “the hardest job a writer has.” E.M. Forster wrote that a plot “can only have one merit: that of making the audience want to know what happens next. And conversly, it can only have one fault: that of making the audience not want to know what happens next.”
Story and Plot Both of them are really closed in meaning. However, the story is defined as a chronological event, while the plot as an event that shows cause and effect as the way of making it more dramatic. The sentence “The king died, and then the queen died” is a story, but the sentence “The king died, and then the queen died of grief” is a plot.
PRACTICE MAKE A PLOT OF A TRADITIONAL STORY OF PUTRI MANDALIKA IN LOMBOK
