ExErCiSe: A Bad Plot...
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writercisesOriginal posting: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 20:36:00 -0400
A bad plot is like having an umbrella jammed down your throat, and opened there, and pulled out open, so that the broken ribs lacerate your lungs, and being beaten over the head with the handle.
(with recognition for Don Marquis, for this fine simile for unpleasantness)
A bad plot... I'm sure you've read a book (or even two!) that made you want to throw it across the room, or at least made you wonder what kind of @#$@W% let that be published?
So what do you compare a bad plot to?
Or even, what are the hallmarks of a bad plot?
A bad plot is like having an umbrella jammed down your throat, and opened there, and pulled out open, so that the broken ribs lacerate your lungs, and being beaten over the head with the handle.
(with recognition for Don Marquis, for this fine simile for unpleasantness)
A bad plot... I'm sure you've read a book (or even two!) that made you want to throw it across the room, or at least made you wonder what kind of @#$@W% let that be published?
So what do you compare a bad plot to?
Or even, what are the hallmarks of a bad plot?
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