Sometimes, when writing, annoying questions come to my mind. I’ll be writing my story and everything seems to be going fine then, suddenly, I discover a plot hole.
Funnily enough this can come in the form of a character asking a question and then I have to deal with the question.
Plot holes are an almost inevitable part of writing. In the real world the unexplained can happen. In a story every part should have some value.
In 2008 my brother and I were in Paris. We saw an old man on the metro. He was a little scruffy looking and kept standing up, gesticulating, speaking quickly, and then sitting back down. I don’t speak French so I have no idea what he was saying. My impression, from the reactions of those around us, was that he was probably predicting the end of the world. (It could have be literally anything else.)
In a film, or a book, including such an event would have to have some kind of point. Although I suppose, and I am defeating my own argument here, he could just be a curiosity in a wider adventure. I suppose it is more proper to say most things have to have a point.
The final episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 4, Restless, takes place in a dream world. Everything in it has a meaning with one exception. A bold man offering slices of cheese. The meaning of this is that it is meaningless. The idea being that all dreams have elements of meaningless.
As an aside I have never been a fan of this episode. I like it as a piece of art but not as an episode of television. I shouldn’t have to know philosophy and ancient Greek just to understand something of this sort. Perhaps I am just an uncultured so-and-so.
As another aside my dreams are, I am fairly sure, completely meaningless. I once had a dream that someone sent me a living baby in the post. The dream me didn’t seem altogether surprised with this development. I just made sure the tiny baby was taken care off.
In my novel a group of centaurs are rescued from slavery. My astute, intelligent, and kind protagonist is going to ask awkward questions about this. She will want to know why more slaves aren’t rescued in the story. I have some ideas of how to answer but not a complete one. I think I will go with plan B…write the story and let reviewers, if reviews there be, come up with lore to explain my shortcomings.
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