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A Writer's Dozen - Archive

Plot Devices
First posted 2003-2004

Plot devices are those things in your story that keep your characters together long enough for them to resolve their conflict. Some plot devices are:

  • Secret Baby
  • Custody Battle
  • May / December
  • Wounded Hero
  • Old Lovers
  • Second Chance
  • Mistaken Identity
  • Rags to Riches
  • Mail Order Bride
  • Marriage of Convenience
  • Beauty and the Beast
  • Presumed Dead
  • Amnesia
  • Revenge
  • Second Wife
  • Undercover
  • Reunited
  • Terms of the Will
  • Wager
  • Makeover
  • Snowbound Cabin
  • Kidnapped
  • Car Chase
  • Quest



October 2004