Writing Hypothesis: III

So last time we chatted I introduced "Thesis."

Next is the step everyone is familiar with, the one most authors are graded on the hardest.

Plot. A Plot is like the Road-map to a great story.

A good plot should be spanning, convincing, real (yes even in fantasy writing) and dramatic, there should be risk and intrigue with a healthy dose of conflict and the general feeling that success is impossible. But you should still be able to summarize it in less than a page.

Creating a plot can be easily done, but you have to have a discerning eye when reviewing it and writing it. Creating a good plot is not so easy.

I am generally wordier than I have to be at this point, randomly casting in names and general descriptions that can be subject to later change, but it helps keep the words flowing.

Idea: Aliens land in Paris

Thesis: After centuries of studying humans, human biology and human culture, the long lived race from the Cygnus nebula descended on Paris just in time for fall fashion week.

Plot: Lord Cobbe took on his assignment from Queen Pen with reluctance but grace. Handling the odd creatures on Earth was not how he wanted to spend his time. But her reasons were solid, there were resources available on Earth that they needed, and regrettably the people of Earth just were not advanced enough to warrant playing fair.

He would have to take his people in, un-noticed to relieve the previous unlucky Cygnet.

Something must have been missing in their reconnaissance. After centuries of studying humans unnoticed. Human Biology was no mystery. Human Culture was a snore or idiosyncrasy..

Centuries of work, and one single message didn't make it home, costing the Bevy the mission. And it would be up to Cobbe to save the Wedge as the long lived race from the Cygnus nebula descended on Paris. The arrival of the Wedge had to be diverted to an old neighborhood near the Opera House, fortunately obscuring the rest of the Bevy, but Lord Cobbe Anatidae himself was spotted by Evelyn Grace, designer at large.

Forced to masquerade as a Model for the Grace line Cobbe is thrust face first into Fall Fashion Week in Paris.

**Insert Various Tasks for Grace, and duties for the Wedge**

**Inevitable Discovery**

**Love**

**Sheltered by Grace**

**The Great Escape**

**Leaving Grace Behind**

**Trumpeted Out**

**Going Back**

**Getting the Girl**

See how I married, various ideas, introduced thesis all as part of the plot? I will use many different methods, gradually growing it into a story as it is fleshed out. In case you missed it, all of my working terminology is connected to Swans, if you follow that path and decide on a jargon to use when dealing in sci-fi or fantasy it gives a little bit of cohesion to your language choices while sounding just foreign enough to draw in the reader.