You and I share almost opposite reading tastes, Plei. I am that bane of the librarian and the literature teacher, the escapist reader. I want an adventure, not the journal of a person's inner turmoil. Other people's inner turmoil doesn't move me, unless they're being internally tumultuous while on their way to do something.

I do get annoyed that people--no one here, of course!--call my tastes lowbrow.

I guess we're back to definition here. If someone uses "plotty" to mean, say, "densely plotted", then I can start to narrow stuff down some.

I think I'm seeing it often used as shorthand for densely plotted, yerp.

I think I'm just gonna follow Suela around waving a "what she said" banner.

t blush

To me, "plotty" means the point of the story is the unfolding events, not character interactions or character development

Hmmm. I tend to believe that the characters *drive* the plot, but then I'm also thinking novels, not fanfic.

Hmmm. I tend to believe that the characters *drive* the plot, but then I'm also thinking novels, not fanfic.

I can't really separate the two, in terms of how I think of them as a reader. (Obvious distinctions re: writing)

I started out writing fanfic in an X-Men APA, where all the fanfic was of course plot-driven, since that was the model we used derived from the comics. It wasn't until much later when I was out into the wider world of fanfic that I ran across non-plot-centered fanfic. So I'm more than a little biased by my personal history.

I want an adventure, not the journal of a person's inner turmoil.

I tend to want both. Those stories are very, very hard to find, but when I find them I hang on to them very, very hard.

I'm not sure I've ever really written a "plotty" story, then, by the definitions above. Hm.

I've never written a densely-plotted story.

But I do have charts and notes for the non-densely plotted longer ones! t /cheerful

Hey, woman, you feel like chatting?