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Plot events are situations that push a story forward. Whether you are writing a short story, a screenplay or a full-length novel, understanding plot events can make your work meaningful and marketable. Plot events are the situations in a story that show conflict, as freelance writer and teacher C.S. Wyatt explains in the Tameri Guide for Writers. Plot events provide narrative structure and cause a character to change, usually for the better. They also heighten drama with "rising action," as professor Gary Parks at Shoreline Community College explains in Elements of Fiction. Stories with event-driven plots include plot events that are out of the characters' control but force them to act. Wyatt gives the example of World War II stories as event-driven. In other stories, plots occur because characters make decisions based on internal conflicts and emotions, or in reaction to the work of a villain. These stores feature character-driven plot events. In a crime novel, plot events may include the initial crime, the investigator finding clues and the final arrest of the criminal. In William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," one plot event is the meeting of Romeo and Juliet; their secret marriage is another. Tameri Guide for Writers: Plots & Stories; C.S. Wyatt; Apr. 17, 2010 SFF Net: The Top Ten Plotting Problems; Alicia Rasley; 1998 Bedford St. Martin's: Elements of Fiction: Definition of Plot; Gary ParksDefinition
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