Scene and Plot in Story Writing

When I'm writing my story/stories, I have GOT to remember that it's important to write about coincidences, a real life story. Life doesn't have fate and destiny set out like a story-teller, it's made up of more something like coincidences, so when something great and epic happens, it's not going to happen a zillion times more, so learn to cherish those moments more often, write fewer of them, and make them unique and important.

That's hard to do, so try writing a plot before you write the story and stop worrying so much about whether the details puzzle together. That will confuse you, if you're at the outline stage, stay there until you have an outline or a couple of outlines. Quit trying to get each detail perfect before you get to the end, or halfway through, or something! You get the point.


Honestly, amazing scenes are all about improvisation and random creativity, like music-- and although they might be amazing and great, if you stick them them too tightly, you'll be bound by them and you can't progress with your story and your story is therefore crap, and won't move beyond crap, so remember to look at the big picture too, or even before, you work on scenes, unless it's really important.

(The exercise is good, just don't freak out when you don't write something great down, instead, enjoy it and learn from it like you learn from watching a movie or seeing a great example of fashion. You can't keep everything, but you can get an impression in your mind.)


That way you also won't be stuck writing everything that pops into your head. That's impossible in music, you wouldn't do that, would you?