Comments on: Why a Strong Plot Requires a Significant Goal https://writershelpingwriters.net/2022/08/why-a-strong-plot-requires-a-significant-goal/ Helping writers become bestselling authors Wed, 26 Feb 2025 18:16:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: About This Writing Stuff… | Phil Giunta – Paranormal, Fantasy, & SF Writer https://writershelpingwriters.net/2022/08/why-a-strong-plot-requires-a-significant-goal/#comment-760296 Sun, 11 Sep 2022 16:08:35 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=47753#comment-760296 […] Why a Strong Plot Requires a Significant Goal by September C. Fawkes […]

]]> By: September C. Fawkes https://writershelpingwriters.net/2022/08/why-a-strong-plot-requires-a-significant-goal/#comment-759643 Fri, 12 Aug 2022 03:59:32 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=47753#comment-759643 In reply to MINDY ALYSE WEISS.

Hi Mindy,

Thanks! I know once I realized they fit into those three categories, it really helped me. As a “young” writer, I kept thinking when people talked about goals, they meant obtaining goals, and that wasn’t the kind I wanted to write about at the time. I have run into other writers who have experienced the same thing.

]]> By: September C. Fawkes https://writershelpingwriters.net/2022/08/why-a-strong-plot-requires-a-significant-goal/#comment-759642 Fri, 12 Aug 2022 03:55:58 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=47753#comment-759642 In reply to Ingmar Albizu.

Hi Ingmar,

I have been talking about these ideas elsewhere as well, and you are not the first person who has said that. Conflict is important, but if there aren’t goals and stakes, then it really is just cleverly disguised filler. If there isn’t an objective or potential consequences, the outcome of conflict doesn’t matter.

I haven’t read that one, but it sounds like it does escalate in an interesting way–I like dragons and shapeshifters 😉

Glad this was helpful to you.

September

]]> By: September C. Fawkes https://writershelpingwriters.net/2022/08/why-a-strong-plot-requires-a-significant-goal/#comment-759641 Fri, 12 Aug 2022 03:50:22 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=47753#comment-759641 In reply to BECCA PUGLISI.

Thanks, Becca!

]]> By: MINDY ALYSE WEISS https://writershelpingwriters.net/2022/08/why-a-strong-plot-requires-a-significant-goal/#comment-759640 Fri, 12 Aug 2022 00:46:50 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=47753#comment-759640 Thanks for this helpful reminder of how important goals are. I love the way you break them down into three categories, including maintaining. I have a feeling writers sometimes overlook that goal.

]]> By: Ingmar Albizu https://writershelpingwriters.net/2022/08/why-a-strong-plot-requires-a-significant-goal/#comment-759637 Thu, 11 Aug 2022 19:14:09 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=47753#comment-759637 This was so helpful, September.
I was always taught plot is about conflict, However, seeing conflict explained as goals and stakes makes it easier to understand and put into action.
It also reminded me of one of the best short stories I’d read, The Tomato Thief by Ursula Vernon. A grandma wants to stop whoever is stealing the tomatoes from her garden. Granted, it quickly escalates to dragons and shapeshifters, but at its heart is a grandma wanting to eat tomatoes.
Thank you, September, for the excellent teaching post.

]]> By: BECCA PUGLISI https://writershelpingwriters.net/2022/08/why-a-strong-plot-requires-a-significant-goal/#comment-759635 Thu, 11 Aug 2022 13:25:26 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=47753#comment-759635 These are great points, September!

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