Where's The Plot?

[mmerriam]

I've talked before about how I do (or don't do) plot. While working on The Loon Story, I found that once again, I've no real idea what the plot is. I'm pretty sure, here at 10,000 words, that there isn't one. This story had been all about Grace being faced with serious challenges while growing as a character, the Loons' desperate quest to find Grace and save what needs saving before it's lost forever and everyone else trying to deal with the world as it has become in their own way. And while that seems like it might be plot. I'm really not seeing it. Or perhaps it's simply not the focus.

10,000 words. Lots of interesting characters. Lots of character development. Lots of solid world building. No plot.

Oh Dear.

Also, Grace might be the most internally angry character I have every written. Here at 10,000 words—which, since I'm writing things out of sequence, I'm guessing to be about the midpoint of the story—I'm just now finding out how incredibly angry Grace is at nearly everything, but mostly at herself and mostly because she thinks she's hopelessly broken. Poor Grace. She's stronger than she thinks she is.

Comments

[queenofillusion.livejournal.com]

Huh...that sounds like a plot to me. How do you define plot that this work seems like it doesn't have one?

Personally, I adore characters and how is their growing and changing and dealing or not dealing with what happens to them or has happened to them not a plot?

Confused now. :)

Veronica