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This book includes:
- Understanding the different types of plot
- The different types of dilemma
- The secrets of keeping your readers gripped
- An easy way to create grand plot ideas
- How to turn a single plot into multiple pathways
- How your characters determine the outcome of your story
- How to give your characters conflicting goals
- The 4 essential elements of a great story
- How to calculate your story's excitement rating
- How to turn one news item into 15 different plots
- How to turn a single word into 11 different plots
- 12 ways to thicken the plot
- Understanding impossible situations
- 14 mistakes your hero might make
- Easy ways to make sure your characters change over the course
of the story
- How to borrow from history
- All about life-changing experiences
- How to make sure your story flows logically
- All about motivation
- An easy way to extend your plot
- Understanding story structure
- Advanced sub-plotting
- Twist endings – the right way to do them
- How to make your endings unguessable
- Plus how to turn one simple idea into
720 different stories
- How to avoid the internet plot scam
- And lots of easy ways to create unique plots - far too many
great ideas to list here!
Sample idea: Character-orientated plots
The basic character-orientated plots are: a person versus another
person, a person versus himself, a person versus nature, a person
versus society, a person versus a machine, a person versus God,
and God versus everyone.
When you've decided which of these to use, think about what would happen if
you switched your story to one of the other plot types. Or you could try the
basic story idea in all of them to see what might happen. This will
give you a wide variety of possible plots - and you could even combine several
of them into a single story.
[REVERSAL] For even more possibilities, look
at each plot in reverse. A person versus nature, for example,
could be about a sailor at sea during a ferocious storm. But
if we reverse this idea, it becomes a story about a person's
support for nature rather than his fight against it.
That might be the story of an environmentalist struggling to
save a rain forest from destruction. A person who fights against
himself might struggle to overcome his fears, phobias, lack of
willpower, and other personal demons. But if we reverse this
we get someone who supports himself. Perhaps he's on
a path to self-betterment or spiritual enlightenment, or perhaps
he supports himself financially, or is self-sufficient in food
and so on.
[EXTENSION] We don't want him to have too
much of an easy time, of course, or it won't make a good story.
So at a certain point we might temporarily 'reverse the reversal'.
Perhaps he's forced to question his willpower and beliefs, and
perhaps fight against himself for a while, until he
finally gets a grip on things. Taking the self-sufficiency story
as an example, perhaps he loses confidence in himself after his
crops fail, and he's forced to rely on other people for a while.
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