A Monster Called Plot

1001Buch is a superb quarterly targeting all readers interested in literature for young people. With essays, interviews, commentaries and portraits each magazine, dedicated to one theme, features the whole spectrum of literature for children and adolescents, be it about books, illustrations, writing, genres, new trends and old traditions.

Editor-in-Chief Franz Lettner asked me to write for quarterly number 1/2018 with the ambiguous subject “Material.” He asked me to write about plot. Plot? If there’s one thing about writing that drives me crazy, it’s the plot. …