Monday, July 04, 2005
New Article: "The Three Master Recipes for Fiction"
It's one of those questions that remain largely unsettled. How many types of stories are there?
Are there two? (Comedy and drama.) Or seven? (Man versus God / supernatural / himself / man / society / machine / nature.) Or twenty, as Ronald Tobias suggests in his book, Twenty Master Plots (And How to Build Them)? Or thirty-six, as defined by George Polti in his classic 1921 book, Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations? Or sixty-nine, as reported by Rudyard Kipling?
While each of these theories has merit, the real number of story varieties is virtually as boundless as one's imagination. Nevertheless, the question persists because the answer has practical and applicable value...
Continue reading the new article: "The Three Master Recipes for Fiction."
Are there two? (Comedy and drama.) Or seven? (Man versus God / supernatural / himself / man / society / machine / nature.) Or twenty, as Ronald Tobias suggests in his book, Twenty Master Plots (And How to Build Them)? Or thirty-six, as defined by George Polti in his classic 1921 book, Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations? Or sixty-nine, as reported by Rudyard Kipling?
While each of these theories has merit, the real number of story varieties is virtually as boundless as one's imagination. Nevertheless, the question persists because the answer has practical and applicable value...
Continue reading the new article: "The Three Master Recipes for Fiction."
