Sentences with phrase «plot work»

It has a great cast, the acting is professional, and the dialog and plot work like a finely tuned machine.

Poor editing, terrible character development and a rather convoluted plot all work against it.

To really make the quest plot work, you need to keep the learning experience as collaborative as possible.

Provide research support for investigations of the cause and effect relationships between soil and crop response, including field plot work and crop growth simulation modeling.

The simple pleasures of a twisty plot work in concert with Soderbergh's fascination with the visual textures of ordinary human spaces, resulting in a film that feels lived - in, even at its most cornily artificial.

Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa weaves together an actual plot working as transition material between all of the gags.

plot works significantly better.

«Poor editing, terrible character development and a rather convoluted plot all work against it» Yikes!

There are a couple of decent laughs to be had, and about a dozen or so smiles, but unlike its predecessor, Legally Blonde 2 has several stretches of scenes where the levity and mirth take a break, leaving us a bit bored when there's not much going on except some necessary explanations in order to make this ambitious plot work.

If you are working on a book or have completed an early draft: check out Work in Progress Assessment, Critique, Readers Reports, One to One Mentoring or Brainstorm Your Plot

Plot — an analysis of how plot works, by Damon Knight.

Sometimes a simple plot works brilliantly, and in Xenoblade it works just fine until the final portion of the game where suddenly the developers decided to go into full blown «boy's manga» mode.

Cliché or no, the five amnesiac heroes plot works great, and the script is excellent.

2) Heartland was gullible enough to cough up everything that was asked for without any confirmation 3) Gleick thought it necessary to sex up the document to make his nefarious plot work 4) Mosher recognized Gleick's writing style and was so sure of it he worked up a frenzy of speculation about Gleick so fierce that Gleick confessed

All the characters and plots work like a well oiled machine.

Between that, adjusted characterization, and altered story beats, Earthlock's plot works significantly better.

But when the plot works, it works.

The plot worked like an hourglass, slowly burying its characters under the weight of their own obliviousness.

The performances, the dialogue and the plot all work together like a rare machine.

Kruger's love of twists and turns in the plot worked well in Scream 3, but are tedious and drawn out here.

But the temporary tragedies of the plot work against the film's narrative momentum and remove its sting.

I would write stories without much thought to if the plot worked or not, if the characters were real or not, if the world made sense or not.

Line editing: When you feel your book is largely in the shape you want it to be — the plot works, the characters are fully realized, all the scenery and furniture is in place — I would do the line editing.

Once I had a plot worked out, I went back and cut, trimmed, relocated and added until I had something that held together as a story while still having that odd, rambling sense about it.»

Jami Gold has one step to make sure our plot works, Angela Ackerman talks about the story midpoint and mirror moment, and Jake Kerr discusses pacing -LSB-...]

She layers a rather spooky ghost story on top of her historical musings, and I feel like these two strata of the plot work particularly well.

Plot Your Work — C.J. Ellisson — Gold Do you struggle with balancing your writing with the rest of your life?

It's a rich, elegantly - plotted work that, even had the author lived to see the series to its final volume, still must be considered one of his strongest efforts, standing alongside Three to Kill and The Prone Gunman.

The plot works in service of the character's inner struggles and journey.

From Pantser To Plotter: My Problems With Pantsing From Pantser To Plotter: My Conversion, Part 1 From Pantser To Plotter: My Conversion, Part 2 Kait Nolan, has a very funny style and uses it to great advantage as she explains why the cost from seat of the pants writing has driven her to plotting her work.

Uses a light outline (4 pp double spaced, not too detailed — ``... and this happens») that helps make sure the plot works, but leaves enough room for being creative and writes character sketches.

But when the plot works, it works.

The plot works more as a really good set - up for an action RPG and is extremely replayable.