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HOW TO USE NEWTON'S FIRST LAW INTO WRITING TO CRAFT A GOOD PLOT 😉

You would find many stories that have brillant writing but a very average plot. It happens to the best of us and is completely normal in the practice of writing.

Art of story telling can compensate for around ninty percent of dull plot but having an exciting plot is what puts the cherry on top and separates usual stories from award winning, heart robbing and emotionally wrenching plots.

I will take the example of a famous TV series, GAME OF THRONES which is based on a book series, A Song of Ice and Fire, since it is one of the greatest plot ever written.

The plot butchery it has endured in the end seasons will also grant us a closer look at the significance of exciting plot and how not to ruin it.

Game of thrones grapsed the attention of millions around the globe and its amazing how it came out of the mind of a human. GRR Martin crafted the plot in a great intricacy that even if the main story ends, the mini plots around it can always dig into great depths and birth so many other stories.

I can go on for days about the magnificent world building, immense culturalism, characters development, crafting legends and myths across the realm but what grips the audience is its mind twisting plot.

A plot is a motion. All the actions dancing together in synchrony and presenting themselves in a cohesive manner is its essence. And according to me, like all the motions, it also works upon Newton's three laws of motion.

Physics and Literature? Well, nature has its symmetries and we are no exclusion to it. That's the beauty of Newton's law. They apply mostly everywhere.

🔴 Newton's 1st law of motion is the law of inertia and states that a body will stay in a state of motion or at the state of rest until and unless an external force is applied on it.

Same goes with gripping plots.
Things just doesn't happen out of nowhere. A motion or state of rest has to be disrupted.

People don't just wake up and go to an adventure in a good plot. They are complelled to do so by various reasons.

(Referring to Game of Thrones)

🌿Example: Life at Winterfell was going as usual until Starks recieved a letter that Jon Arryn is dead and the King marches North to meet them.

Dissecting this further, as a reader there are two things that interest us, firstly, somebody very close to Ned Stark( the main character) has died. There is grief. A ripple in the calm waters. Secondly, why is King marching North? (What is so important? How are they related?)

There are two elements, an intense emotion and an intriguing question. And it's enough, for now, to move forwards.

> Things just doesn't happen out of nowhere.

🌺Tip: You should lay down the foreshadowing well in 1st chapter if you want things to happen out of nowhere.

🌿Example: You can always narrate as it was done in Harry Potter:
Weird things happened around orphan Harry, he could speak to snakes and then one day when he turned eleven, he recieved a letter from the Hogwarts.
A strong action changed the course of ordinary flow.

A force was applied.

Make sure the force applied is more than enough to urge the story to change it's direction into something interesting. Give not just one but more season to strengthen the compulsion for character to go out of the way to begin something.

🌿Example: Ned Stark was reluctant to go South as Hand of the King because of his family in the North. Once his father and brother went to North and were burnt alive. He had a small son at Winterfell too. Also he didn't like politics at all as he was an honorable man.
So what made him go?
Not just King, his old friend, convincing him.
He had alliance with his family to marry his daughter to Prince Joffery.
He also learned that his Jon Arryn whom he considered a close family was murdered by Lannister.
Another reason was because he feared the King's safety among Lannisters. These were solid reasons to go South.
Not just unreasonable wish.
It not only progressed the plot but also revealed how honorable Ned Stark was. How he could sacrifice his own happiness to protect his friend. It revealed a lot of character traits that both offered him rewards and punishment later. This is what a good plot does.


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