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Title: this one time and band camp


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this one time and band camp
  • story form, plot, and structure

2
nothing new?
  • With so much already written, is there anything
    new left to say?
  • Are we just recycling?

3
only six plots (feeling caged?)
  • 3 basic conflicts
  • person against person
  • person against world
  • person against himself
  • 2 possible outcomes
  • protagonist wins
  • protagonist loses

3 x 2 6
4
the complexity is immense
complex characters
characters in conflict with one another
characters also in conflict with themselves (with
any of a million inner demons)
maybe add a third level of conflictthe world
now throw in variations of arrangement, tone,
prose style, setting, and interactions of all
these elements
5
pitfall alert 1
Dont confuse different with good. Careful not to
fall back on cute gimmicks or quirky situations
or strange twists because you dont think you can
come up with anything new.
6
plot 101
Aristotle
7
plot 101
Gustav Freytag
8
plot 101
Janet Burroway
crisis
(falling action)
resolution
complications
conflict
9
e. m. forsters concept of causality
The king died, then the queen dies is a story.
The king died, then the queen died of grief is a
plot.
  • plot begins with a character and a goal
  • it is the relentless pursuit of the goal that
    drives the story forward
  • the tension results in the characters pursuit
    with obstacles getting in the way

10
pitfall alert 2
  • Beware of False Starts
  • dream beginning
  • stutter starts
  • excessive exposition

11
pitfall alert 3
  • Forbidden Endings
  • killing the first person narrator
  • and then I woke up
  • the question conclusion
  • deus ex machina

12
backward plotting
In groups, exercise 11, page 294.
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