tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post5245426359048278439..comments2024-03-28T10:16:38.716-04:00Comments on SleuthSayers: Some Thoughts on the Importance of Plot, Character and Conflict in FictionLeigh Lundinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07921276795499571578noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-22527763522027400232013-06-27T18:35:55.747-04:002013-06-27T18:35:55.747-04:00I'd say Le Carre, briefly quoted in your artic...I'd say Le Carre, briefly quoted in your article, is a master at melding plot and character. He's also a master of the third stool leg Elizabeth mentioned: the writing. So was Dorothy Sayers.<br /><br />My favorite paragraph was the one about the human being's love-hate relationship with perfection.Terence Fahertyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05928381496296429254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-42367187302894637132013-06-27T13:22:33.671-04:002013-06-27T13:22:33.671-04:00Good article. Never hurts to be reminded about usi...Good article. Never hurts to be reminded about using these two elements while in the process of writing.R.T. Lawtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15523486296396710227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-33596772700589836022013-06-27T11:12:07.164-04:002013-06-27T11:12:07.164-04:00Plot, character, writing - Anne Tyler, especially ...Plot, character, writing - Anne Tyler, especially "Saint Maybe" - a typical selfish young man, jealous of his brother's new wife, tells his brother that she's cheating on him; brother dies in a car wreck, wife dies of an overdose - how will he deal with it? <br />Margaret Frazier - "The Apostate's Tale" - a runaway nun in medieval England returns to the convent with her illegitimate son, apparently to repent, but perhaps not...<br />Mrs. Henry Wood - "East Lynne" - Lady Isabel marries to escape an abusive step-family; then leaves her husband and kids for her true love; when the true love turns out to be a bastard, what will she do to get back into her abandoned family? Oh, and a murder's mixed up in that, too...<br />And many more.<br />Eve Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03015761600962360110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-56959833214149799072013-06-27T10:25:26.791-04:002013-06-27T10:25:26.791-04:00Love the post, and I do agree. My top picks among...Love the post, and I do agree. My top picks among current writers are all in genre fiction: Lois McMaster Bujold, Michael Gruber, Diana Gabaldon. I always talk about the three-legged stool: plot, character, and writing. The movies are more forgiving, though the quality of the script does make a huge difference. I sometimes think the authors of those thrillers you mentioned deliberately give us character as an empty suit of clothes, waiting for Tom Cruise or another of his ilk to inhabit it. And unlike the literary novelists, they're laughing all the way to the bank. Elizabeth Zelvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13944424094949207841noreply@blogger.com