Blog 81 – Slaving Over Hot Pots and Plots … Ms Paige Turner
I’ve been slaving over both for the past few festive weeks. There are worse places to be. I have 7000 words to get in for my Masters’ assignment next week and I’ve discovered that plots and turkeys are alike.
As long as your turkey is well prepared and has the right ingredients: great stuffing and seasoning, then it will cook itself. Like turkeys, plots cook themselves if the characters are doing their job and that’s because characters, like people, create their own problems. Of course you do need to turn up the temperature now and then.
Plots, it seems to me are so called as they have shape: they start somewhere and they have a finish. They are finite. They are artificially constructed. Think of cemetery plots and garden plots. And gunpowder plots.
We’re still consuming the frozen turkey so let’s hope my plot defrosts okay. Enough of this analogy. I’m in danger of mixing my metaphors.
I wish you all a happy new year. And for the anonymous writer who emailed me after my last mail shot saying I ought to make it easy for people to get to our Creative Ink for Writers’ Facebook page, here’s the link: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Creative-Ink-for-Writers/499238446841633
Goodness me, just as easy as cooking a turkey. Thanks, Tim Cox for the link!
Creative Ink for Writers’ classes start next week with one place left on Thursdays/Get that Book and full on Tuesdays.
Creative Ink Publishing raised £305 for the local Hearts & Souls charity bringing efforts up to almost £4000 for various charities. ‘A Dozen Promises’ – Creative Ink Publishing’s Ebook will be out shortly with Tim Cox’s amazing IT skills.
Slaving over Hot Pots and Plots …
04/01/2014 // by Jan Moran Neil
Mixed metaphors? I’ve eaten just about everything else over this festive feast-tide. I shall prepare a bowl of gruel tonight with a thick plot of cooked goose barking up the wrong tree in search of way to feather its nest. Don’t think it comes more mixed-metaphor than that. As for the fib … I’m at a loss … unless it’s the amount you’ve raised for Hearts & Souls, I bet it’s a lot more and your modesty is masking a decimal point. Whatever the sum, well done, and a very happy new year of Creative Inking.
Booked for 12 Angry Men. Saw your post on FB!
Gosh! I hope you have an enjoyable time – I feel responsible having given it a positive review. It’s a solid show … but the film version with Henry Fonda is my preference. You’ll note the script is revised from the original (14th version, I believe) and something subtle and unexpected happens to the set. Spot it and this time I’ll provide the freebie prize.
12 Angry Men – wonderful. When do the tables turn? Superb metaphor for the play.