Plot and Story: What’s the Difference, and How Do You Make Them Happen?

Plot, at some point, drives every writer crazy. Why? How can you handle it? How do you stay ahead of your narrative without shoehorning it into a pre-arranged, constricting shape? What do you do when — not if — your characters do something you didn’t expect?

In this workshop we’ll explore these and other plot-related issues. We’ll look at the fundamental difference between plot and story, and discuss ways to use that difference to help bring a narrative under control.