Discovering Your Plot

M.A. Lee

What do writers want from plot? What do writers need from plot? Are those questions the same? Not really. As wordsmiths, we writers know that want and need are two different words. · The want is a circumstance that we writers can control. We want...

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Opening Credits

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Introduction to Discovering Your Plot

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What is Story? (with Story Length)

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Genre Expectations & 10 Major Genres

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Hate and Love for Genre Tropes

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Plotting Essentials

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Special Approaches to Plot

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Plot Structure for the Masses Intro

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Aristotle's Plot Requirements

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Shakespeare's Plot Requirements

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Freytag's Plot Structure

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Complex Plot Structure

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Basic Beats

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Plot Structure for Writers

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Writers and Archetypes

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Stage 1 Ordinary World

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Stage 2 Call to Adventure

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Stage 3 Refusal of the Call

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Stage 4 Meeting with the Mentor

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Stage 5 Crossing Thresholds

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Stage 6 Tests, Allies, and Enemies

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Stage 7A Approach to the Inmost Cave

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Stage 7B Entering the Cave

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Stage 8 Ordeal

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Stage 9 Reward

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Stage 10 The Road Back

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Stage 11 The Resurrection: of Evil and of the Protagonist

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Stage 12 Return with the Elixir

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Appendix 1: Kishotenketsu: an Asian Plotting Method

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Appendix 2: the Plot 7 , part A

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Appendix 3: the Plot 7, part B

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Ending Credits

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