Sorry if this is confusing, but do you have any tips on writing engaging plots? I’m planning to write a multi chapter series and when I plan out the plot for it, I get anxious that a certain idea for it is bad or boring, so I take it out and add something else in (the cycle goes on and on and on until I’m struggling to come up with something or I get tired of it). This is probably because the fear of it being bad has taken over my mind, but I thought I’d ask anyway. Thank you in advance!

brynwrites:

The key to writing engaging plots is the key to writing all genre stories:

Write characters who want things, and then make them work for those things against increasing pressure.

As long as you have a character trying to accomplish a goal that’s difficult for them to reach, and you make them face harder challenges and grow more as a person the closer they come to reaching that goal, you can make any idea interesting. 

Here are some other things that might help you:

How does pacing work?
Creating strong plots with strong plot points.
What is suspense really?
Combining ideas to create wild and cool stories.
For a word on doubting your ideas, see point #2 here.

For more writing tips from Bryn, view the archive catalog or the complete tag!

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