Thursday Thoughts: Plot holes
Any TV show, movie, or book can be nitpicked to find inconsistencies and hard to believe situations, so as I’m writing, I try not to get too bogged down in getting everything perfect.
I will often write something that contradicts a previous event in some way, usually because I’ll think of an interesting twist or action and have to look back and make changes which in turn can create another plot hole.
Why don’t you just write an outline?
I have a general idea, but imaginations are not always there at the moment you need them, so the story line needs to have some fluidity in the first draft. I’m never going to create the perfect story free from any minor contradictions or unimportant details. You know, Frodo, Gandalf, and the gang could have saved a lot of time if they flew to Mordor on the Great Eagles.
One thing I don’t try to do is explain my future technology. It just works. It gets the characters from A to B in a reasonable amount of time. It allows them to understand alien races without having to learn the language each time a new species is encountered (let’s all thank Star Trek). Think of fantasy books filled with magic. Reader’s don’t need and explanation on how magic works. It’s magic. Abracadabra and all that.
-Leon
Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words, and his latest sci-fi mystery, Euphrates Vanished.
My new book page: http://books.linesbyleon.com/
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