Masterclass Notes: James Patterson — Part 3 — Plotting
4 min readAug 22, 2022
- Story is about revealing character and causality (i.e., when one event leads to the next, which leads to the next and so on and so forth until the inevitable end).
- “Try to write every chapter as if it’s the first chapter of the book — try to write every chapter as if it’s that important.”
- “Write a story, not…pretty sentences. Write a story.”
