The 15th Annual Craft of Writing Conference drew nearly 200 people to the Dallas area in late September. Sponsored by Southern Methodist University and the Greater Dallas Writers' Association, the event took place in the Omni Richardson Hotel and featured 31 speakers. When you begin to weave the story. Story is as chaotic as real life, she said. Thus it needs a point, such as good versus evil.
Plot is the armature on which the story hangs.
A writer should begin in the middle of the story, with a conflict or a problem. A series of conflcits leads to a crisis and then a resolution. Plot is a deliberately arranged story with a point. A story does not have to be life threatening, but the protagonist should feel with great passion and intensity, that it is a life or dealth matter. In literary fiction, the plot is not as evident as in commercial fiction.