Writing Elements (of Food)

Per Melissa’s suggestion, here’s a preliminary list of writing elements (that is, distinct things you have to do over the course of writing a novel). I guess these would be Foods in our Candy/Vegetables metaphor? So in a well-balanced book you need:

Savory (Plot)

(Theme/Attraction to Reader/Internal Logic/External logic)

Sweet (Character)

(Motivation / Emotional state/ Internal Dialogue/ Expression/Character Interactions)

Starchy (World)

(Ramifications of Conceit/ Internal Consistency/ Believability)

…Presentation? (Style)

 (Description of Scene/Choreography of Action/Blocking/Realism)

Would you agree with this classification? Which of these things do you enjoy writing (or reading)? Which of these things do you hate? Who’s good at these things?