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Fictional Narrative Basics - Plot
Unit Completion Date: End of Week 5
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Conflict, tension, protagonist and antagonist are likely all the plot concepts you will need to keep in mind during your first draft. Know who your main character is and what forces oppose him or her. Think of different ways you might heighten that conflict and you should be able to move forward with the story. As readers and writers seeking to improve our first draft material, however, we are going to need to be able to employ a more extensive vocabulary and a deeper understanding of plot and the various elements that comprise it.
At the end of the "Beginning" section of this discussion unit, you and each of your classmates provided an example from their selected story of the situation faced by the character. These examples are posted in the "Plot" section of the class craftbook. In submitting these examples, you all also addressed how situations, events, and environments outside the character's control intersect with the character's desires, and how the author chose to bring the character's desires in conflict with the world.
This presupposes a model of narrative fiction in which the protagonist wants something (or wants to be free of something) and elements outside of the character stand in the way. This is a common fictional plot structure, but it is only one of many. Read the examples posted by your classmates and compare them to the dramatic situation of your own selected story. How many of these seem to fit the model I've described above? Does your selected story?
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