Significance of plots as a writer

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Plot! It is the most important part of anything. Your house is built on a plot and so is your story. Not everyone is a critic. Not everyone focuses on the grammar mistake, the use of cliche, the writing style and wording. But if there's one thing that everyone notices, its the plot!

A plot involves the world your story is set in, the characters that interact with that world and the necessary props. All the things you require to make an outline of a story can be involved in a plot. A strong plot leads to a beautiful story. If your plot is weak, you cannot build a castle on it. Now that plot can be as stupid as you want. A masterpiece can be built on it. An illogical idea is not equivalent to a weak idea. Tsugumi Ohba created a very strong plot around such an illogical idea, that resulted in the masterpiece we call Death Note today.

You can use mind maps to make a plot.

Write down the basic idea or the name of the story or the one-word representation of your book on the centre of an empty page. Now set a timer for, let's say 20 minutes. Now start jotting down all the things - important milestones, important characters, potential scenes, some significant dialogues and anything you can think about related to the story. Now group these milestones and arrange these groups in an order of their occurrence, i.e., chronologically. Once you get that figured out, elaborate briefly on it and you have your plot ready.

Now all you need to do is sprinkle you touch, elaborate it further. Fill it with some touching dialogues. Enter a descriptive scenario and write all the important plot twists, and voila! You have your masterpiece ready! Meet you at the Booker Prize ceremony (JK (not really, have faith in yourself!)).

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