{"id":761,"date":"2010-04-20T07:41:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T11:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=761"},"modified":"2010-04-20T07:41:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T11:41:56","slug":"structure-and-plot-on-the-subway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=761","title":{"rendered":"structure and plot on the subway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was sitting on the subway next to a man who was reading a book called <I>Structure and Plot<\/I> (or possibly <I>Plot and Structure<\/I>), so I peeked over his should to see if I could learn anything.<\/p>\n<p>I learned:<br \/>\n<UL><LI>writers should use plot and structure<\/LI><LI>some \"literati\"-type writers disdain plot, they think that plotting is something like slumming<\/LI><LI>those \"literati\"-type writers are wrong<\/LI><LI>there are two types of plots:<\/LI><UL><LI>literary plots, and<\/LI><LI>commercial plots<\/LI><\/UL><LI>literary plots involve somebody's internal journey, and they meander around to various points (the book included a helpful chart) until they come to:<\/LI><UL><LI>a hopeful ending, or<\/LI><LI>a downbeat ending<\/LI><\/UL><LI>commercial plots, on the other hand&mdash;<\/LI><\/UL><\/p>\n<p>And that's when he closed the book and got off the train.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect that, if there are only two kinds of plots, I must already be doing the \"commercial plot\" kind, since the diagram and description of the \"literary plot\" didn't seem to resemble anything that I do.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-bottom-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F761&print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F761&print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was sitting on the subway next to a man who was reading a book called Structure and Plot (or possibly Plot and Structure), so I peeked over his should to see if I could learn anything. I learned: writers should use plot and structuresome &#8220;literati&#8221;-type writers disdain plot, they think that plotting is something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111],"class_list":["post-761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":767,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}