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Good voltage curve, logically designed, so you don’t always think ‘he?’, well-designed characters, well-converted.
This is of course conceivable abstract, but much more cannot be said. That’s like you’re asking me ‘What’s a good painting?’
Writing is just somewhere an art form and correspondingly hard to say in my eyes what is good or what is not good. Clear answers in the sense of ‘it must be socially critical’ or ‘at least a homosexual character must occur’ cannot be given there. And I don’t want to do that, because it’s just a fix to such aspects that the book is getting pretty bad.
Individual aspects can of course be individual for someone, but you will find as many opinions as there are people you ask. There are people who have to have it that someone goes on in a book and others who read nothing where a character sometimes deals with pregnancy and abortion. Finding this doesn’t help you.
Not even a Plottwist must be included in a good novel. There are countless who simply go straight through to the end and are still good.
Finally, you should focus on the essentials: A well-thoughted plot without gaps and with appropriate tension curve, good, balanced characters, a clean style that lets you write vividly to draw the reader into history.
If there is a point that the plot should not have, then there are logic gaps… but there are also enough successful novels that have survived DAS.
The voltage is and falls anyway with the reaction. You can have the most exciting plot if you don’t implement it right away, it’s infinity for the reader and he puts the book frustrated to the side.
I don’t think you can generalize it.
I could say now that you should miss out on strongly thundered elements and clichés, but that would not be quite right. There are things that have been devastated, or something similar, for thousands of times, and yet they are still happy to be read.
The classic heroic journey should have been boring, but it is not. Because every story is still unique.
A good plot must, for me, build up tension and be logical in itself. If the story or character development is not comprehensible at all or goes too fast and the logic gaps accumulate, I often have no desire to read more.
What he must also have, but that should be of course, is a conflict. Otherwise there is no general answer or a patent prescription.
It becomes unpredictable, for example, by not already explaining to the reader anything too early. Not every secret has to be ventilated directly. It is sometimes difficult as an author to leave things unnoticed (or unwritten) and not to immediately explain any motive, but you don’t do that, there is no tension at the reader, because he already knows everything.
For example, if I have a figure that is always under tension and is anxious, I can of course explain to the reader why it is so and what it is so afraid of.
But I can’t write anything more about it and make the reader riddles about it for 200 pages, like what and why, maybe even lead it to a wrong ferry before I tell him what it is. And that then at best with a bang, that is, for example, interwoven into a dramatic event.
Plottwists are, of course, always a good means to shock the reader. However, I still do not recommend to anyone to install one (or more) of them. Sometimes the plot just doesn’t give it, or it doesn’t really fit in to guide the reader around the nose almost all the time. But if it suits and you have a good idea for a twist, there’s nothing against it. It should be taken care, however, that it is not too thirsty/predictable, otherwise it is the opposite.
It is much more important to draw the reader into history, to tie him up and not to let go again until the end. A good plot alone is not enough. I can plan the most amazing plot, but he won’t bring me anything if I can’t do it well, my writing style is grotty or my characters are flat and boring.
As I said, there is no patent prescription. Every story is special in its own way. It doesn’t matter if the plot is complex or simple. And there are no things that a plot must not have. What is expected from a story is in any case different from readers to readers. Therefore, you should always only write what you want to break out of yourself and not want to read what everyone else believes.
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in itself the classics: voltage curve, character development, Plottwist ( betrayal, dead, etc.).
I really love good and unexpected Plottwists 🙂