: Re: I suck at plots. Is there a way to sort of train oneself to think of creative plots, specifically in scifi? I'm pretty good in the writing department as far as prose, it's just that I'll

The best beginners book for plotting I've read is My Story Can Beat Up Your Story by Jeffery Alan Schecter. He shows a method - exactly beat-by-beat - for building a plot that'll work for pretty much every type of story, and he uses Star Wars to demonstrate his example. It's more than just plot though, he talks about characters, relationships, arcs and a lot of other stuff and how it all feeds your plot. It's really very good if you're struggling.

If you want to know specifically how to find ideas for stories and building a sci-fi plot then I suggest you wait till April 2013 and buy my book! It's called Writing The Science Fiction Film and it's published by Michael Wiese Publishing.

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