I cannot express how much I love this idea.
Every first Wednesday of the month, writers across the globe blog about their insecurities. It's the opportunity to announce your insecurity, and hopefully, get rid of it as you realize other writers have the same ones (or used to).
So this is my first time joining up in Insecure Writer's Day, and it's sadly too easy to come up with a big insecurity for me.
My insecurity is:
People don't like my plot.
My biggest hurdle in sharing my work is not in thinking that the writing isn't any good, or even in whether I've got a modicum of talent. No, it's a bigger issue than that.
Bad grammar can be forgiven, and poor sentence structure can be overlooked--if the plot is absolutely amazing.
The Hunger Games, Harry Potter, neither of those series have perfect grammar or perfect sentences. They probably could have been written better, to be honest. And really, The Hunger Games doesn't have a particularly new plot, nor does Harry Potter. So why are they so great?
I think the plot resonates with many readers on many levels. Classic tales of good versus evil, of children growing up and doing the best they can to overcome the odds. Stories where, despite the differences of the characters' lives and yours, you can connect with them.
So maybe it's not that my plot isn't any good, but maybe it's that the way I'm telling the story could be done better. Maybe the characters I've chosen aren't compelling enough. Maybe there aren't enough twists and turns in the plot. Maybe my desire to give an ambiguous/literary ending angers my reader so they never come back.
I could go on and on. Really, it's endless. All because of plot.
I could read a million books on plot, and I'd probably still struggle. Because really, the best way to learn plotting is to plot.
So I'll head off to my work-in-progress now and begin plotting once again. In the hopes that someone will want to devour this book until the final page.
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