The first building block: Plot and story (part TWO) PLOT POINTS

Author and creative writing tutor Ian Ayris explores how you can embed drama and build tension as you plot your story.

n the previous article in this series, we encountered the First Building Block of Creative Writing – the one upon which all others arguably sit – the Building Block of Structure. We spoke of Story and we spoke of Plot – the Story being the overall arc of a narrative – the Beginning / Inciting Incident / Middle / Climactic Incident / End / Resolution – and the Plot being the things that happen in the Story.

The Story, we stated, was the why, the Plot the how.