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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.

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.

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. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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