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One of the fundamental tasks of any writer is to create great plots. What are the major works that can help the writer in this task? Here is my own personal list to help you.
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Morphology of the Folktale
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The Thirty Six Dramatic Situations
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Poetics
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Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting Paperback – November 29, 2005
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Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
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Plot & Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers from Start to Finish
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Writing for Story: Craft Secrets of Dramatic Nonfiction
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The Hero With a Thousand Faces
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Motif-Index of Folk-Literature: A Classification of Narrative Elements in Folktales, Ballads, Myths, Fables, Mediaeval Romances, Exempla, Fabliaux, j (Volume 1 of 6)
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Scene & Structure
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Plotto: The Master Book of All Plots
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Beginnings, Middles, and Ends
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Scene & Structure (Elements of Fiction Writing) by Jack M. Bickham(2006-04-01)
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The Classical Plot and the Invention of Western Narrative
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The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories
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The plot of the short story: An exhaustive study, both synthetical and analytical, with copious examples, making the work a practical treatise
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Understanding Conflict (And What It Really Means) (Skill Builders Series, #2)
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Janice Hardy (Goodreads Author)
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The Fairytale and Plot Structure
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Terence Patrick Murphy (Goodreads Author)
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Handbook of Narrative Analysis
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From Fairy Tale to Film Screenplay: Working with Plot Genotypes
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Terence Patrick Murphy (Goodreads Author)
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Theory of Prose
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Averroes' Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Poetics
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Storytelling in the New Hollywood: Understanding Classical Narrative Technique
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Poetics Of Cinema
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