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BUILDING YOUR PLOT A plot will not leap into your mind in a whole and fin- ished state. It is a growth. You may be inspired with the basic idea, but you have to construct your plot. Your story must be thought over and dreamed over until you have your facts. Then begin shaping it. Throughout the growth of the plot, the problem is to build up the interest by adding one complication after another. When the grand climax is reached, the problem is to remove the complica- tions in such a way as to retain the interest. Every plot must have an object. That object must be settled upon at the start, then kept distinctly in view as the situations are introduced. When the plot is completed, that object must have been accomplished. A plot is made up of conflict, of struggle, of opposition. There is always an obstacle to be removed; there is always a problem to solve. If the action of a play were direct, it would soon come to an end. The purpose must be retarded by an obstacle; then the obstacle must be overcome; the action speeds again toward the goal; it is again delayed; and so on to the end. The clash of interests between the characters is the result of good motives being thwarted by bad motives. The good must always win out in the end, though defeated in some of the scenes in order to create suspense. The con- flict of interests is not always confined to the virtuous and 'the wicked. Oftentimes, circumstances, misunderstandings, selfishness, carelessness, ignorance, or indifference will bring about situations as dramatic as if a villain had planned the opposition. In comedy, the clash usually comes about through misunderstandings or blundering. The incidents of a plot must be "motived"; that is, the cause of every incident must be apparent in some incident that has gone before and has established a motive for what follows. Every event should grow naturally out of the preceding incidents and lead naturally to those that come 19