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Originally Posted by MartinC
If you're good at spontaneous short pieces, why not stick to those for a bit? The best ones are allusive and oblique - there doesn't have to be a plot as such at all.
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Yay, that will save me having to think of one. I suppose I could be clever and say the lack of a plot is to convey the boredom and futility of life on the dole under Thatcher. But the truth is, plots in similar books always strike me as somewhat contrived.
It would be reasonably easy to shoe-horn in an evil kung fu master or a nazi plot to spoil a rock against racism concert (both of which have been used in books I've read recently), but I don't think that would really add anything worthwhile.
Plus if I stick to random events I can carry on writing them until I get bored with the idea.