They find the plot holes, timeline issues, things that need to be worded differently, boring areas, etc. (The key is, of course, finding people who are good at this.
This might help
us find plot holes, unnecessary scenes, or dropped plot threads.
A good editor has to be able to
find plot holes and sluggish chapters as well as misspellings and bad grammar.
She may also
find plot holes and point out bigger issues.
Not exact matches
To pin down the nature of their dozen candidates, Hailey's team
plotted their spectral peaks and tracked their activity across time,
finding patterns consistent with previous observations of binary black
hole emissions elsewhere in the galaxy.
To
find out which process wins out, ecologist Jerry Melillo of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods
Hole, Massachusetts, tracked two 10,000 - square - foot
plots of deciduous forest for seven years.
For example, you
find out that Butler's character was some kind of operative agent, but this seems to be putty in a
plot hole to explain why he is so good at what he is doing.
There are
plot holes such as you'd
find in most imaginative tales; for example, in the Indian hotel, why would Ian walk up the stairs and take the elevator down?
Solidly told by German writer - director Fatih Akin («Head - On», «The Cut»), it displays decent if unexceptional TV - movie chops until a pile - up of
plot holes and wild story twists take it somewhere so crude that you'd be forgiven for
finding it offensive.
As with any such thriller that involves the thorough confusion of the audience,
plot holes could be
found if we looked hard enough.
There may be a few
plot holes here and there, sure, but the cast is strong enough that you
find yourself forgiving any narrative stumbles.
But the
plot is riddled with
holes - do a quick google search and you'll
find lists and lists of them - and there's very little sense of who the new baddies are and exactly what they're trying to achieve.
However, soon the
plot holesstart opening, and we
find that the movie has more
plot holes than actual
plot.
The road - trip
plot is simple, but there are befuddling
plot holes — like when Wendy is hospitalized after a car accident, but we never
find out what happened to the others in the car — and the dialogue is often cringe - worthy.
Look for
plot holes with any kind of critical eye and you will
find many.
The film works — and just barely — only because the narrative flies at warp speed; there's no time to think about gaping
holes in the
plot and gross violations of the fundamental laws of physics, not to mention credibility, when you finish hurtling in the course of two hours across the Atlantic Ocean and back only to
find yourself hurtling through the Chunnel with no chance to catch your breath.
The busy minds at How It Should Have Ended
found some of the
plot holes in Black Panther and applied real - world logic to them.
If one needs further proof, the Commander in Chief on the receiving end of that question is the third man to hold the title over the course of the
plot, and the actual head of Presidential security is busy at the time, given that he's
holed up in the Oval Office coordinating a group of mercenaries in the White House to
find the actual President in order to hold him for ransom — namely the hundreds of millions of dollars in the Federal Reserve.
I
found it best not to overthink the story line, as I began to envision a number of
plot holes, but because the film is so involving, the viewer isn't given the opportunity to second guess any of the elements involved here.
One company has a new app, available soon in beta, that provides authors with a «big picture» of their manuscript before they send it off for editing, helping them
find some of the possible
plot holes and character flaws in order to streamline the process down the road.
Get at least one opinion, but preferably a lot more to
find out if the story actually «works» and if there are any
holes in the
plot.
It is checking the story for logic
holes, inconsistencies of
plot and character, patching any
holes in the fourth wall,
finding spots in the story that are weak or don't make sense, then suggesting possible solutions.
They also could not
find holes in the
plot or point out where a character was weak or the dialogue needed to be redone.
The reason for this is that the beta readers may
find major
holes in the
plot prompting you to have to do a major rewrite and saving you unnecessary expenses down the track.
A shrewd and exacting reader may
find «
holes» in the
plot — for example, the facility with which everyone seems to open up, or the level of access a lady's maid seems to have to everyone and everything she seeks — but for those willing to suspend disbelief, this is a great way to spend a few hours and maybe even learn something about the New York of a different time.
You may be surprised at how many
plot holes they
find that you thought you'd plugged.
A good editor will
find holes in the
plot that the beta reader may have missed, things that need further explaining.
There were certain
holes where you have to learn that the ball trajectory shown when
plotting your shot can be flat out wrong, then
find an alternative way to the
hole.
Admittedly there's a few
plot holes to be
found along the way, but overall Deponia tells a tale that is hugely satisfying from start to finish, and that largely comes down to two things: its characters and its sense of humour.
Many of us will just laugh it off and move on paying no attention to the
plot, but some of us channel our inner detective and need to
find out if this is truly a
plot hole.
F is about the failures of the heart muscle while in A, for «aperture», a woman, Anna,
finds a picnic table and — in a
plot worthy of Henry James's psychological fiction — discovers her name graffitied into it; she digs into the letters, creating a
hole with a creepy revelation.