According to Christopher Booker, there are seven basic plots, which are as follows. Overcoming the Monster A terrifying, all-powerful, life-threatening monster whom the hero must confront in a fight to the death. An example of this plot is seen in Beowulf, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Dracula. Rags to Riches Someone who has seemed to [...]
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Browsing Posts tagged novel: project c
Hello all, this is my first time participating in the Absolute Write blog chain. The subject: What would it be like to meet your novel’s characters. As this is a chain, I am but a link (How pretentious sounding of me, eh?). The link before me is Aimee Laine and the one after me is [...]
I had a thought today. A wonderful thought. A brilliant thought. I had the great idea to add an important scene to Project C, a scene which filled in a nice gap of background info. The only problem is it doesn’t fit anywhere. Oh, wait. If I re-arrange…AHA! Fix’d! Also, it lets me add another [...]
Well, it appears that Project C fails the Bechdel Test. At least, I think it does. The Bechdel Test is simple. To pass the test the story needs to meet 3 simple points. 1. It has at least two women, 2. Who talk to each other, 3. About something besides a man. There is one [...]
Alright, so if you don’t know what Racefail is, it was a big, huge debate that occurred in early ’09 about writing and race and racism and all that stuff. I didn’t really pay much attention because I was dealing with my own crap and I didn’t want to expend the energy debating it. No [...]
