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Author |
: William Wallace Cook |
Publisher |
: Norton Creek Press |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780981928470 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0981928471 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Plotto by : William Wallace Cook
Have you struggled to expand your initial idea into a complete story? Plotting can be frustrating work! What if there were a tool for this very problem, so you could navigate these uncharted waters as quickly as possible? A tool that starts with what you have (a situation, perhaps, or a group of characters) and sets you on the road to new possibilities? Plotto does all this. Created by a master of organized creativity, William Wallace Cook (one of the most prolific writers in history), Plotto has been prized by professional authors and screenwriters since its publication in 1928, and is still in demand today, with copies of the original edition selling for up to $400. This Norton Creek Edition is an exact reproduction of Cook's work. To keep the book down to a manageable size (300 pages of very small type) while retaining its powerful features, Cook uses a telegraphic format that takes some getting used to, so working your way carefully through the introduction and its examples is the key to professional-quality results. Because Plotto was written in the Twenties, its situations can seem old-fashioned and its terminology politically incorrect, but these problems are more apparent than real. Cook himself wrote both westerns and early classics of science fiction, so you see how replacing stagecoach with star ship or dance hall girl with male stripper are within the reach of anyone using the Plotto system, and, in fact, this kind of substitution is how the book is intended to be used, and is the key to its flexibility and enduring popularity.
Author |
: Robert Kernen |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0898799031 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780898799033 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Building Better Plots by : Robert Kernen
"This interactive guide explores the principles that comprise a well-constructed plot and teaches you how to incorporate these principles into your own work."--Publisher description.
Author |
: Erica Trabold |
Publisher |
: Hobart & William Smith College Press / Seneca Review Books |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0910969051 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780910969055 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Five Plots by : Erica Trabold
"Essay collection [that] delves into notions of how we are shaped by the land every bit as much as we shape it, eschewing easy ways of understanding and experiencing the world by investigating place as a malleable psychological and phenomenological force"--Author's website.
Author |
: Christopher Booker |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 737 |
Release |
: 2005-11-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781441116512 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1441116516 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Seven Basic Plots by : Christopher Booker
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 the inmost patterns of human psychology. Drawing on a vast array of examples, from Proust to detective stories, from the Marquis de Sade to E.T., Christopher Booker then leads us through the extraordinary changes in the nature of storytelling over the past 200 years, and why so many stories have 'lost the plot' by losing touch with their underlying archetypal purpose. Booker analyses why evolution has given us the need to tell stories and illustrates how storytelling has provided a uniquely revealing mirror to mankind's psychological development over the past 5000 years. This seminal book opens up in an entirely new way our understanding of the real purpose storytelling plays in our lives, and will be a talking point for years to come.
Author |
: Shelley Saguaro |
Publisher |
: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0754637530 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780754637530 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Garden Plots by : Shelley Saguaro
Focusing on a range of twentieth-century texts and including relevant twenty-first century writing, Garden Plots explores the ways in which gardens in fiction represent more than just a familiar theme. Bound up with wider aesthetic and ideological issues, gardens, like literary forms, are subject to transformations. The term 'plots' is a keyword in this approach. It refers to garden plots, literary plots, and more generally, the plotting that is political, polemical, and subversive. Each of the six chapters includes four texts that are familiar and representative. Authors include Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty, Carol Shields, J. M. Coetzee, Toni Morrison, Leslie Marmon Silko, Jamaica Kincaid, and Philip K. Dick.
Author |
: Martha Alderson |
Publisher |
: Illusion Press |
Total Pages |
: 208 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1877809195 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781877809194 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Blockbuster Plots Pure and Simple by : Martha Alderson
Blockbuster Plots Pure and Simple presents step-by-step strategies that demystify the structure of story. Track the 7 most important elements of scene - pre-plot; cause and effect; conflict, tension, suspence; complex characters; compelling action; clarify theme; re-vision rewrites. You will be able to develop a multi-layered plotline for your story.
Author |
: Ben Carver |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 190 |
Release |
: 2021-11-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000475616 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000475611 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Plots: Literary Form and Conspiracy Culture by : Ben Carver
This edited collection contributes to the study of conspiracy culture by analysing the relationship of literary forms to the formation, reception, and transformation of conspiracy theories. Conspiracy theories are narratives, and their narrative form provides the structure within which their ‘readers’ situate themselves when interpreting the world and its history. At the same time, conspiracist interpretations of the world may then be transmediated into works of literature and import popular discourse into narrative structures. The suppression and disappearance of books themselves may generate conspiracy theories and become co-opted into political dissent. Additionally, literary criticism itself is shown to adopt conspiracist modes of interpretation. By examining conspiracy plots as literary plots, with narrative, rhetorical, and symbolic characteristics, this volume is the first systematic study of how conspiracy culture in American and European history is the consequence of its interactions with literature. This book will be of great interest to researchers of conspiracy theories, literature, and literary criticism.
Author |
: Jean Hanff Korelitz |
Publisher |
: Celadon Books |
Total Pages |
: 273 |
Release |
: 2021-05-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781250790743 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1250790743 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Plot by : Jean Hanff Korelitz
** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! ** The Tonight Show Summer Reads Winner ** A New York Times Notable Book of 2021 ** "Insanely readable." —Stephen King Hailed as "breathtakingly suspenseful," Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Plot is a propulsive read about a story too good not to steal, and the writer who steals it. Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he’s teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what’s left of his self-respect; he hasn’t written—let alone published—anything decent in years. When Evan Parker, his most arrogant student, announces he doesn’t need Jake’s help because the plot of his book in progress is a sure thing, Jake is prepared to dismiss the boast as typical amateur narcissism. But then . . . he hears the plot. Jake returns to the downward trajectory of his own career and braces himself for the supernova publication of Evan Parker’s first novel: but it never comes. When he discovers that his former student has died, presumably without ever completing his book, Jake does what any self-respecting writer would do with a story like that—a story that absolutely needs to be told. In a few short years, all of Evan Parker’s predictions have come true, but Jake is the author enjoying the wave. He is wealthy, famous, praised and read all over the world. But at the height of his glorious new life, an e-mail arrives, the first salvo in a terrifying, anonymous campaign: You are a thief, it says. As Jake struggles to understand his antagonist and hide the truth from his readers and his publishers, he begins to learn more about his late student, and what he discovers both amazes and terrifies him. Who was Evan Parker, and how did he get the idea for his “sure thing” of a novel? What is the real story behind the plot, and who stole it from whom?
Author |
: Maura D'Amore |
Publisher |
: Studies in Print Culture and t |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1625340958 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781625340955 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Suburban Plots by : Maura D'Amore
In the middle of the nineteenth century, as Americans contended with rapid industrial and technological change, readers relied on periodicals and books for information about their changing world. Within this print culture, a host of writers, editors, architects, and reformers urged men to commute to and from their jobs in the city, which was commonly associated with overcrowding, disease, and expense. Through a range of materials, from pattern books to novels and a variety of periodicals, men were told of the restorative effects on body and soul of the natural environment, found in the emerging suburbs outside cities such as New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. They were assured that the promise of an ideal home, despite its association with women's work, could help to motivate them to engage in the labor and commute that took them away from it each day. In Suburban Plots, Maura D'Amore explores how Henry David Thoreau, Henry Ward Beecher, Donald Grant Mitchell, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nathaniel Parker Willis, and others utilized the pen to plot opportunities for a new sort of male agency grounded, literarily and spatially, in a suburbanized domestic landscape. D'Amore uncovers surprising narratives that do not fit easily into standard critical accounts of midcentury home life. Taking men out of work spaces and locating them in the domestic sphere, these writers were involved in a complex process of portraying men struggling to fulfill fantasies outside of their professional lives, in newly emerging communities. These representations established the groundwork for popular conceptions of suburban domestic life that remain today.
Author |
: John C. Byrne |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 8 |
Release |
: 1988 |
ISBN-10 |
: MINN:31951D030018571 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Distribution of Permanent Plots to Evaluate Silvicultural Treatments in the Inland Empire by : John C. Byrne