I would love to write a novel someday.
Or at least something bigger than a short story.
But I am horrible at plot.
What do I need in a movie
TV show
or
book?
Plot.
But everything I come up with
seems like it has been done before.
It’s derivative.
Or incomplete.
I’m not so bad with characters
voices
dialogue
situations
setting. (I think.)
But that essential plot
is deficient.
Maybe it’s because my life is basically plotless.
The other characters – people,
their specific voices,
the dialogue between them
around them
with me,
the situations where we or they interact, and
the setting where everything takes place,
leave no room for plot.
Do I have conflict?
Absolutely.
Do characters change over time?
I think (hope) so.
Do big things happen that impede daily existence?
Not every day,
but more than enough.
Is a big dramatic element present?
I don’t think so.
My life could never be a reality show.
Which is totally fine by me.
But I would probably never read that book.
And I turn those shows and movies off.
I just wish sometimes that I could
insert
some small but great version of a plot,
purely for the sake of the story
that could be written.