Crazy?

I find Moore's article to be humorous at best. She writes about the most random things often times making the characters blow up because of some magically appearing weapon or random piece of ordnance. I especially liked the part when Francie's characters are injured by a landmine in their house. Impossible? Yes. Funny? I think so. Yes, that's morbid, but sometimes wild things like that strike the funny bone in some people. The idea of "insane writers" can be cliche, but sometimes it can be true. I'm sure some authors are quite deranged while others are completely level headed. I think there are a lot of writers out there that write about insanely off the wall subjects, yet live totally normal lives with well nourished relationships and a sane demeaner. I don't think her second person story is a misconception of writers. To me, I think it could possibly be a mind dump of what happened to her throughout her life. It could have nothing to do with other writers at all. I have no idea if people have stereotypes of me, but I know people have stereotypes for those who serve or have served in the military. Often times people think we're incapable of handling intelligent conversations or even anything past a gradeschool education. I'm guessing people think we're all Infantry: trained to pull triggers and nothing more. A plot is just a plan or storyline. Without a plot, readers are left to wonder what this partifular part has to do with that particular part, and so on. They're good for keeping things in check and on subject; characters, environments, etc... I think five paragraph essays are more for research papers and the like. For a personnal narrative or fiction story, they are problemmatic. I don't want to be limited on such things, especially if I'm really interested in what I'm writing about.