It might be referred to as a “B story” because it will run parallel to the main idea of the narrative and support it in some way. Please let us know you’ve found it useful.In literary terms, a subplot is a secondary storyline or plot that occurs at the same time as the primary plot or storyline.
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*Reprinting and republication of this article is permissible in its entirety, with full attribution, including the paragraph above. If you are interested in getting clarity on the plots and subplots of your life story, please consider using as a guide, Listen To My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story by Sibyl Towner and Sharon Swing. So, are you aware of how the subplots of your story are converging to tell an epic story of love, or have you lost the handle on the plot? His very breath and blood flow through us, nourishing us so that we will grow up healthy in God, robust in love. We take our lead from Christ, who is the source of everything we do. God wants us to grow up, to know the whole truth and tell it in love-like Christ in everything.
Great stories often include a dramatic turn of events, against all odds comebacks, or the completion of a long obedience in the same direction. Choices you make about your present and future determine if the main plot turns out to be inspiring, just plain boring, or something in between. Getting a handle on the storyline of your past will help you to make profound choices that impact the beauty, clarity, direction and outcome of the plot. Together, we can live up to and into the only plot worth living the one that leads us toward expanding our love for God people. Your story is worth knowing and worth telling because it is a part of God’s Epic Story, which makes it part of our collective story. Joining the Master Author in the story as he arranges the redemption of all things that are not as they should be in our lives is what turns our mundane stories into great, wondrous adventures. God promises to use any and all subplots of our lives to draw us closer to him, expanding our capacity to trust him and love him. As we review our lives we can find the beauty of God’s expression through us, the ugliness of when we’ve turned away, and the ever-present themes of redemption – or hope of coming redemption for our life story plot and subplots. Yet, as co-authors of our life stories, we make choices to turn toward or turn away from our true selves, as God intended us to be. In him and through him all things, including our subplots, are held together. God is the one that holds the random subplot stories together and is weaving them together into the only plot that matters. This is where the uniqueness of our character, the circumstances, people and the places of our existence are woven into stories of triumph, tragedy, faithfulness, betrayal, fast action or stalled dreams. Subplots converge to tell the over-arching plot of a life story. The plot can be summed up like this:Īll of our life story plots converge in this statement - simple, yet beautifully multifaceted. Let me announce to you that the plot of your life is knowable, discoverable, and freeing. But, are those events the plot of the story, or the subplots? At times the thread that ties those events together is evident, and other times seemingly invisible, or random.
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Often, people talk about the plot of their lives as a series of events stretched across a timeline that reads more like a resume than a story with a strong plot.
Busy with just living, we can fail to notice how the events connect in to subplots, let alone the main plot or themes of the story. Sometimes it might be difficult for a lead character in the story to track their own storyline. If you consider your life as a story, “What’s the plot?”
Have you ever lost the handle on the story of your life?
Maybe you’ve experienced reading a book, having your mind drift, and losing the handle on the storyline? Flipping back some pages, you might have to find the place where you absent-mindedly left the story to make sense of where the plot is going. By Sharon Swing, Co-Author of Listen to My Life
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