20 Master Plots and How to Build Them by Ronald Tobias

20 Master Plots and How to Build Them



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ISBN: 0898795958, 9780898795950
Publisher: Writers Digest Books
Format: pdf
Page: 240


This is short, but I like the system it lays out for brainstorming plots. =) Not everyone will, I'm sure. Ronald Tobias, author of 20 Master Plots (and how to build them) settled on 20 "best selling" plots to help writers strike the right chord with potential readers. What if the eland is hungry and far ahead? In 20 Master Plots and How to Build Them, Ronald Tobias presented a list of lowest common denominators for sound plotting. The highly prolific writer, Robert Heinlein (check him out on Amazon and you'll see how prolific) argued that there are only three basic plots. In 1993, Ronald Tobias published 20 MASTER PLOTS: AND HOW TO BUILD THEM. So I bought this book, “20 Master Plots and How to Build Them” by Ronald Tobias. But in order to make it compelling, I had to make sure I had a decent plot. No theory here, all method, but I feel like I can use this to concretely apply what I've learned elsewhere. Polti's 36 Dramatic Situations. 9) 20 Master Plots and How to Build Them by Ronald B. Tobias I have returned to this book countless times to remind myself a) that writers have been telling stories for centuries and b) that the best stories have form. However, I will count stubbornness among the virtues. Tobias, 20 Master Plots, and how to build them, Cincinnati: Writer's Digest Books, 1993 for explanations. Tobias's 20 Master Plots and how to build them today and it's making a lot of sense.