SandjarSome gems from Samuel Delany on plot:
"I distrust the term "plot" in discussions of writing: it refers to an effect a story produces in the reading. But writing is an internal process writers go through (or put themselves through) in front of a blank paper that leaves a detritus of words there..."
"Talking about plot, or theme, or setting to a beginning writer is like giving the last three years' movie reviews from the Sunday NYT to a novice filmmaker..." #writing #writingcommunity #scifi
"in short, a vocabulary that has grown from a discussion of effects, is only of limited use in discussion of causes." #writing #writingcommunity #writersonwriting