false 114819 4 This book shows the reader how to take timeless storytelling structures and make them immediate, now, for fiction that's universal in how it speaks to the reader's heart and contemporary in detail and impact. <P>Each chapter includes brief excerpts and descriptions of fiction from many times, many genres - myth and fairy tale, genre and mainstream fiction, film plots of all types, short story and novel. <P>Find 20 fundamental plots that recur through all fiction - with analysis and examples - that outline benefits and warnings, for writers to adapt and elaborate in their own fiction. Ronald B. Tobias has spent his career as a writer moving from genre to genre, first as a short story writer, then as an author of fiction and nonfiction books and finally as a writer and producer of documentaries for public television. He is currently a professor in the Department of Media and Theatre Arts at Montana State University and the author of The Insider's Guide to Writing for Screen and Television. He lives in Bozeman, Montana. 110561 17 1 1993 20 Master Plots: And How to Build Them total:73|5:14|4:28|3:19|2:10|1:2| 73 261 127 14 5 1 false false Tue Jun 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 13:08:33 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 13:12:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Sep 09 11:40:58 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 09 12:10:31 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Dec 19 10:58:23 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 11:00:25 -0800 2008 1 0 false false Wed Oct 21 12:37:49 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 12:38:30 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Oct 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 07:02:14 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 15:57:42 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Jan 19 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 11 12:43:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 12:45:53 -0800 2009 1
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