On Writing Better Plots | P2P #24

PLUS: Everything I published last week (in case you missed it).

Reading a story with a bad plot is like going to a restaurant where every dish is decidedly mediocre.

You know the kind of restaurant I’m talking about–the one where there’s no standout dish at all, except maybe in how underwhelming it is. Stories are the same way. We tend to remember the bad stories just as much as the good ones, but it’s the weird midd…