Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beginning to think the secret minutes tell us more about the forgers and their plot than the letter does," Butler said yesterday. "It is possible that the forgers, in developing their scheme, had in mind influencing both the British and American elections in 1924," he added...
Born in Russia, Reilly had been an intelligence officer for the Czarist government working with Rasputin. He was involved in an early plot in 1918 to assassinate Lenin and became involved with anti-Bolshevik groups in Europe...
Character, of course, is an integral part of the love novel. Plot and character must work together. It is advisable to add several secondary characters to amplify the basic falling-in-love sequence...
Segal's Love Story provides a good example of another use to which the secondary character can be put. Jenny's father, while having little to do with the plot per se. shows that Jenny is indeed from a poor Italian family, for now she is at Radcliffe this is hard to see in the girl herself. Oliver, of course, who has found this out, gives the reader reminders; Jenny's father is a subder means to the same...
...final element to consider in the handling of the plot is time. The passage of time can cause events as well as follow from them; that is, if you announce a movement forward in time, you can also have the characters accomplish an action without necessitating lengthy explanations. In this manner Segal has Jenny and Oliver fall in love without dragging the reader through a lengthy exposition of their developing relationship. You, like Segal, must invite the reader to participate: let him imagine how it could be that the protagonists could fall in love, rather than knocking him over...