Authors:Tom Sawyer, Arthur David Weingarten,
Publisher: Ashleywilde, Inc.
Keywords: plots, number, variety, story, outlines, limitless, virtually, unlimited, creative, source, generating
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 1995-01-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0962747602
ISBN-13: 9780962747601
This is a veritable thesaurus of exciting plot twists and story moves that work for any composition of any genre.
Author: Loren Niemi
Publisher: Llumina Press
Keywords: plots, book
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 2006-07-08
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1595264094
ISBN-13: 9781595264091
A starting point for writers and storytellers learning to understand and craft engaging narratives. It examines 10 useful plot forms, provides samples of how they are constructed and exercises for the development of original and adopted material.
Author: Lois E. Bueler
Publisher: University of Delaware Pre
Keywords: plots, clarissa
Number of Pages: 183
Published: 1994-06-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 087413496X
ISBN-13: 9780874134964
Author: Ronald Tobias
Publisher: Writers Digest Books
Keywords: build, plots, master
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2003-01-17
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 1582972397
ISBN-13: 9781582972398
This book shows the reader how to take timeless storytelling structures and make them immediate, now, for fiction that’s universal in how it speaks to the reader’s heart and contemporary in detail and impact. Each chapter includes brief excerpts and descriptions of fiction from many times, many genres - myth and fairy tale, genre and mainstream fiction, film plots of all types, short story and novel. Find 20 fundamental plots that recur through all fiction - with analysis and examples - that outline benefits and warnings, for writers to adapt and elaborate in their
Author: Christopher Booker
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: stories, plots, basic, seven
Number of Pages: 736
Published: 2006-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0826480373
ISBN-13: 9780826480378
This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of ’basic stories’ in the world. Using a wealth of examples, from ancient myths and folk tales via the plays and novels of great literature to the popular movies and TV soap operas of today, it shows that there are seven archetypal themes which recur throughout every kind of storytelling. But this is only the prelude to an investigation into how and why we are ’programmed’ to imagine stories in these ways, and how they relate to t
Author: Christopher Booker
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group
Keywords: stories, plots, basic, seven
Number of Pages: 736
Published: 2005-01-31
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0826452094
ISBN-13: 9780826452092
From The Epic of Gilgemesh to Jaws and Schindler’s List, Christopher Booker examines in detail the stories that underlie literature and the plots that are basic to story telling through the ages. In this magisterial work he examines the plots of films, opera libretti and the contemporary novel and short story. Underlying the stories he examines are Seven Basic Plots: rags to riches; the quest; voyage and return; the hero as monster; rebirth and so on. Booker shows that the images and stories serve a far deeper and more significant purpose in our lives than we have realised. In t
Author: Fanny E. Carleton
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: plots, writers, operas
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2006-05-05
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 1425497047
ISBN-13: 9781425497040
