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20 Master Plots

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ISBN-10: 1582972397

ISBN-13: 9781582972398

Edition: 2nd 2003

Authors: Ronald B. Tobias

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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 own fiction. Ronald B. Tobias has spent his career as a writer moving from genre to genre, first as a short story writer, then…    
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Book details

List price: $14.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: F&W Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/17/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Invisible Fiction
The Lowest Common Plot Denominators
The Strong Force
Deep Structure
Triangles
Twenty Master Plots: Prologue
Master Plot #1: Quest
Master Plot #2: Adventure
Master Plot #3: Pursuit
Master Plot #4: Rescue
Master Plot #5: Escape
Master Plot #6: Revenge
Master Plot #7: The Riddle
Master Plot #8: Rivalry
Master Plot #9: Underdog
Master Plot #10: Temptation
Master Plot #11: Metamorphosis
Master Plot #12: Transformation
Master Plot #13: Maturation
Master Plot #14: Love
Master Plot #15: Forbidden Love
Master Plot #16: Sacrifice
Master Plot #17: Discovery
Master Plot #18: Wretched Excess
Master Plots #19 and #20: Ascension and Descension
Parting Shots
Index