Being a Better Writer: Is Our Story Character-Driven or Plot-Driven?

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Welcome back, writers! Sorry for the delay with today’s Being a Better Writer post. I got a late start today. That’s on me.

Also, before I get started, I have some news about Being a Better Writer for the next few weeks. Through the end of this month, and the first week of next month, Being a Better Writer will be running a best of? Why? Because I’m going out of town and had to choose between writing new posts for the weeks I would be gone or working on Axtara – Magic and Mayhem. Naturally, I chose Axtara, since I already spent a lot of advance time this year writing posts pack a the start of summer. But we’ve never done a “best of” before. So starting next Monday, and until I’m back, Being a Better Writer will be featuring the most popular BaBW articles over the last decade in a “Best of …” format.

With that said, I’m going to dive into today’s topic, which was alluded to last week in out discussion on character-based prose. I want to talk about whether our story is character-driven or plot-driven—or even a mix of both—and what that means for your story.

So hit the jump, and let’s get talking.

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