Twenty Master Plots and How to Build Them: Mainstream Fiction, Genre Novels, Film Plots, Short Stories

Ronald B. Tobias

ISBN 10: 0749914246 ISBN 13: 9780749914240
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Successful, best-selling fiction has one thing in common: plot structures that are both universal and timeless. Good plotting is essential to believable, readable fiction. Twenty plots recur through all fiction and this book shows writers how to adapt them and elaborate upon them to create their own unique novel.

Synopsis: Originally published in 1995 and now available in paperback, a guide to writing fiction, which describes the 20 master plots which recur through all fiction and shows how they can be adapted and elaborated on.

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Publisher: Piatkus Books
Publication Date: 1995
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