The not
so authentic plot
After many
years of market
research I understood
what any ten
year old can
tell: Sex sells,
let it be
ghosts, vampires, or humans
doing it and
if you add
a gore fest
or serial murders
then you
are penning an
international bestseller!
Because all
of us, across the
world have
two things in common: our
love of sex
and fear of
dying.
The plot
has to begin beautifully
and
then has to be screwed horridly before
it ends in
happy
ever after. The beginning, the middle
and the end is a set
standard for all,
though in the end you can leave one or two
characters jumping
like yoyo balls if you
want to write a sequel!
So,
whether it is a fairy tale,
ghost story, action punch
fest, murder anonymous, paranormal tours
and travels, orgasm vending
machine, psycho club…everything...each one
of them has
to begin with
the variety
of synonyms of : ‘the
day is beautiful’.
For example: the sun
is bright, the
moon is soft,
Tommy shot Jimmy,
the meadow is
green, the roads
are grey, a
war was declared,
the fields are
yellow, the roads
are crowded, Sammy’s
dad escaped prison
, I got
up with a
hangover, Jerry is poor
and hungry to the bone, I
rode my Ferrari
across the court, it’s
morning rush hour……this
is how the
novel has to
start reminding
us that all
is fine with
our not so
fine world.
…..
and the
plot has to end
with the world
becoming the original
great happy place we have
been living in
where everyone, as in
the beginning, is kissing
everyone right into the
Guinness world records!
The middle
for various genre
goes somewhat like
this:
Ghost story: the
ghost is trying
to murder someone.
Fairy tale : the
old queen is
trying to murder
the princess.
Action
punch
fest : everyone is
trying to murder
everyone.
Murder anonymous : it’s obvious
someone will definitely
murder someone while in the
others genre the villains are
just trying!
Paranormal and such tours
and travels : intergalactic
and paranormal beings trying
to murder some
earthly being.
Orgasm vending
machine : this is one
genre where everyone
is trying to
be happily in
orgasm all time.
Although the recent
bestsellers tell us
that they are
also trying to
murder each other just to
have
orgasm!
Psycho club: nothing
can be more
obvious about murderous
intentions!
So, the
best plot will
be where : the day
begins beautifully, then the
villain jumps in
from somewhere trying
to murder the
hero heroine while
the hero heroine
are trying to
have orgasm, then
the hero murders
the villain and then
the hero heroine
finish off what
they were doing
before the villain
jumped in.
Since this
is the only
standard plot available
the writer has
to be not
just a magician who
hypnotizes others but himself.
There are of
course some other
older plots available
for example : stories about
orphans and their
mentors and how
the orphans are being
betrayed but in the
modern scenarios if
the orphan does
not murder his
mentor and have
relationship with his
daughter in the end,
his world is
not going to
get any better.
For writing
the marketable novel
you as a
writer should be:
1.
A sex
aficionado.
2.
A sadist
and a research
expert in murders.
3.
And just
so that you
can mix these
two into the
lives of normal
people living happily
in an OK
world and screw
it up before
you right it
again : you have to
be delusional, a near
psychotic case.
But under
no circumstance become
so psychotic that
you fail to
understand the difference
between a pen and
a snake!
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