How a Character-Driven Story Differs from a Plot-Driven Story

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  • Опубликовано: 4 июн 2020
  • Fiction books can be generally sorted into two categories, as award-winning author and former underground storage tank operator Laurel Anne Hill explains. In a plot-driven story, everything deals with the plot. You can still have detailed and compelling characters, but the story revolves around the plot and story arc. If you were to take the characters out and replace them with others, you would still have the same story and story arc. In a character-driven story, sometimes referred to as literary fiction, there is much more depth to the characters. Instead of following characters on a mission or adventure, they are fighting something inside themselves and must deal with their internal struggles to move forward, or fail to change. Hill lists "Lolita" and "Madame Bovary" as two examples of character-driven stories.
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Комментарии • 18

  • @jackhammer4499
    @jackhammer4499 3 года назад +26

    I mean, you can still have a character driven story about adventuring to fight a bad guy, but measuring it by "could you replace the characters and have the same story" is an interesting thought.

  • @danielveres4351
    @danielveres4351 2 года назад +11

    I didn't know who this lady was, but I was searching for a good explonation and upon spotting her with that hat, I know I was at the right place. :D

  • @MrUtah1
    @MrUtah1 10 месяцев назад +6

    Compare Birdman to Batman. Both stories to do with vigilante superheroes and Michael Keaton. But one deals with his own ego, his consciousness and his human condition, while the other deals with saving Gotham from Joker or Penguin

    • @tropicanatropicana9074
      @tropicanatropicana9074 9 месяцев назад +1

      Thank you very much for your explain, it's simple but very revitalizing.

    • @MrUtah1
      @MrUtah1 9 месяцев назад

      @@tropicanatropicana9074 thanks! Appreciate that :)

  • @akale2620
    @akale2620 4 месяца назад +1

    Excellent explanation. I got bored of reading long ago, and just now realized I don't like boring char driven crap. Gimme a plot driven.

  • @Xxxxxrrr6464
    @Xxxxxrrr6464 4 месяца назад +1

    Thanks Laurel
    I learned some great stuff

  • @wormsnake1
    @wormsnake1 3 месяца назад +1

    Why can’t you have great character and plot.x

  • @aubreyv1389
    @aubreyv1389 2 года назад +4

    I’ve been writing scenes for myself of a story I’ve had in my head for a while. And I’ve been fruitlessly struggling to create a plot. You can’t take a character driven story and stuff it inside a plot structure, you’ll just squish the emotional experience altogether.

  • @delshi13
    @delshi13 2 года назад +4

    Anime is often character-driven. I love that.

    • @ivancito7790
      @ivancito7790 2 года назад +7

      It's not. It's often plot-driven with rich characters. Especially shounen.

    • @sttp596
      @sttp596 Год назад

      "Death note" its actually character driven

    • @alvinsmith3894
      @alvinsmith3894 Год назад +2

      @@sttp596 Light didn't battle with himself. He barely had a moment of panic when he had to kill his own father.

    • @tutubism
      @tutubism 8 месяцев назад

      _"Ashita no Joe"_ & _"Kaiji"_ are the only anime shows i can think of as "pure" character driven stories.

  • @VinnyTheory
    @VinnyTheory 10 дней назад

    Can someone name one good character driven story? Like iconic. As iconic as Star Wars or Harry Potter

    • @AuthorLearningCenter
      @AuthorLearningCenter  10 дней назад

      Strong stories often have a good balance of both! www.authorlearningcenter.com/writing/fiction/w/character-development/4202/character-driven-vs.-plot-driven-_2d00_-video

  • @marcuslyons6622
    @marcuslyons6622 14 дней назад

    What’s up with the welders goggles ???

    • @AuthorLearningCenter
      @AuthorLearningCenter  14 дней назад +1

      Representative of the steampunk genre of writing, a subgenre of science fiction that incorporates retro-futuristic technology and is inspired by 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery.