If you have some great characters that you are fond of but you are having trouble thinking of an adventure or situation to put them than a plot generator might help. He uses an analogy where he is the general and his character Jack is the platoon leader. Alex Keegan has an interesting perspective on this in his plotting article. Many authors argue that great stories and novels are character driven. There has to be something to motivate them, some problem for them to solve or some obstacle for them to overcome. It would be difficult to have an interesting story about characters that are just standing around. The main events that make up short stories and novels are called the plot. There are ideas everywhere you look as Michael Banks explains in Where Do You Get Your Ideas.? He says, "Just about anything we see, hear, read, or experience can spark an idea." It really isn't too hard to come up with a plot for a story.
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