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Plots, roller-coasters, and mountains
Kali:
I think the crucial thing about plotlines is that there IS a resolution. I don't think the split plotlines would bother me. After all, Tolkien got away with it in the Lord of the Rings series, when Aragorn went off to rescue Pip and Merry while Frodo and Sam headed off with the Ring. As long as everything resolves, you're golden.
prophet224:
Hey, good point Kali! :)
Thanks for the input Starbeam! It definitely is a third-person limited all-over-the-place sci-fi. :)
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Starbeam on October 01, 2010, 01:12:33 PM ---The basic plotline you're describing is, to me, very reminiscent of how Star Wars stories tend to be set up. I don't think you have to worry too much, because different types of stories, as well as different POVs, will end up with different plotlines. You're plot will look different from mine because yours, from context, sound like a multiple third POV sci-fi/space opera where mine is a first POV urban fantasy. Both of which will differ from a traditional fantsay plotline.
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I'm not at all sure I agree that the shape of stories has to necessarily differ based on the genre; I mean, Star Wars, Dune, the Wheel of Time books and the DF are all ultimately about one young man with a rather messed-up family background discovering that he is in some way special and becoming embroiled in world-sized struggles thereby.
prophet224:
I would agree that it doesn't differ based on the genre, just based on the given story. And those types of story can all be told with single plot threads, single plot threads with sub plots, dual(ing) plot threads (and w/subplots) etc.
Starbeam:
--- Quote from: the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh on October 01, 2010, 10:06:09 PM ---I'm not at all sure I agree that the shape of stories has to necessarily differ based on the genre; I mean, Star Wars, Dune, the Wheel of Time books and the DF are all ultimately about one young man with a rather messed-up family background discovering that he is in some way special and becoming embroiled in world-sized struggles thereby.
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I meant more if the plots were drawn in a purely visual line drawing with spikes and drops, and forks for the different story threads. Nothing about the actual content.
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