About a question "What the plot is", please read a previous article!
Before I start writing about the plot, I'm writing a little about my present condition.
Now I am in Tampa Florida, but I will go back to Japan in a month. I will restart going to university for two years, and I will graduate school in two years.
In Japan, to graduate university is much easier than America or EU or maybe other countries. Especially, my university is very easy (maybe) because the final exam is only writing something long. The tests are so easy, if you would attend, you will pass it.
I will tell you one anecdote of the test.
A student wrote down how to cook an omelet deliciously on the exam paper of Literature, he (or she?) passed the exam.
And one of my friend wrote down how to be born the praying mantes on the same exam, she passed.
You know? How easy!!
In stead of the easiness, of course we can't find jobs easily. This is the destiny. In the other words, because of we can't find jobs easily even if we graduate the university, our exam is very easy.
I don't know who called Japanese people are diligent and industrious...
No no no, I have to say, my university is kind of strange one. Maybe other universities are different, maybe, maybe...
When I took the exam to enter my university, there was interview after the writing test. Now I know that, then the interviewer decided to make enter or not by that the examinees are strange or not. Strange →Enter, Not strange→Sorry, like that.
Anyhow, ... what am I writing about? oh, my present condition... So, I will leave America and I will restart going to university, and one of my friend will leave America before I go back to Japan, and my home-stay family's mother and father will go to New York tomorrow to stay until summer, and so on, there are so many changes around me at this time.
Anyway! I should start writing about plot for a looooot of people expecting my article about play-writing ha ha ha!
I wrote that "A plot looks like a long path up a hill with obstacles along the way".
Today I will explain what a plot should be step by step.
The first step, Plot answers a simple question.
The simple question means, what the playwright wants to write about; it means theme of the play, or where is the stage on that play, or what is the main story of the play, etc.
Most of the good stories are been able to explain the outlines easily. Thus also the plot should be like that.
If a plot never answer a simple question, the play would never give an answer. So who would give? Who knows.
Next, the question should be clear by the 10 percent point.
This 10 percent point is interesting and good to know. If you will write 10 pages, the question should be answered by the end of 1 page, or if you will write 100 pages, it should be by 10 pages.
I think this point is very important.
The more simple looking, the more difficult and important. Everyone is likely to forget the simple things because it looks like so easy therefore less important. But it is not true!
I should pay attention about that...
And the book said, when you write a plot, you should think "And then what? And then what?" and "What dose the character want and what is he doing to get it?" to continue writing and not to lose a tension of the play.
This should be good way to write, I think.
Huh... I will stop writing to here.
I think I wrote too long. Sorry!
So I will continue writing about Plot also next time.
See you!