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20 Basic Plots For Story Generators - Software Secret Weapons

http://www.softwaresecretweapons.com/jspwiki/20basicplotsforstorygenerators The 20 Basic Plots are collected by the Tennessee Screenwriting Association . After you come up with your own system for generating ideas, the next step is to put them in some recognizable story form (the basic plot idea), build your central conflict (the story premise sheet), then build your character and underlying themes (the thematic premise sheet). 1.
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Kurt Vonnegut -- troubling.info

Eight rules for writing fiction: 1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. 2.

Project #20

http://52projects.com/2009/11/06/project-20/ Write some letters. Then, go to the library and place the letters in some books, preferably ones that aren’t checked out very often. Or, place them in books at a used bookstore, preferably books that might not be purchased for a long time.
http://www.archetypewriting.com/muse/idea_generators.htm One of the best ways to break through writer's block or stretch your writing skills is to pick a story starter and just start writing.

Story Starters & Idea Generators

Kurt Vonnegut's Tips for Writing Fiction

http://lifehacker.com/5687349/kurt-vonneguts-tips-for-writing-fiction Digging into NaNoWriMo ? Working on something much shorter? Either way, Kurt Vonnegut has a few tips for your characters, your sentences, and how you treat your readers.
The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations is a descriptive list which was created by Georges Polti to categorize every dramatic situation that might occur in a story or performance. To do this Polti analyzed classical Greek texts, plus classical and contemporaneous French works. He also analyzed a handful of non-French authors. In his introduction, Polti claims to be continuing the work of Carlo Gozzi , who also identified 36 situations. [ edit ] Publication history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirty-Six_Dramatic_Situations

The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ambiguous Words Here's a bunch of words that, by themselves, have a handful of meanings. Because of this flexibility, they can be instrumental in titles for your songs/poems/stories/etc. Click on each word to delve deeper into these words' meanings. The most flexible words are at the top of the list. In other words, we cut you a break by breaking the breaks on "break" and a bunch of other ambiguous words, without taking a break! http://muse.dillfrog.com/ambiguous_words.php

Ambiguous Words

How To Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kleon

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011 Buy the book: Amazon | B&N | More… Buy the list as a print from 20×200.com→ Here’s what a few folks have said about it: “Brilliant and real and true.” —Rosanne Cash “Filled with well-formed advice that applies to nearly any kind of work.” http://www.austinkleon.com/2011/03/30/how-to-steal-like-an-artist-and-9-other-things-nobody-told-me/

My World and Welcome... Funny Pages: Handy Latin Phrases - StumbleUpon

Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat. It's not the heat, it's the humidity. Di! Ecce hora! Uxor mea me necabit! God, look at the time! http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/d/r/dryfoo/www/Funny-pages/handy-latin.html
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Prettiest Words: All of Them. 23 Pages. Could Always Use More, Though - StumbleUpon

Prettiest Words, Alphabetized (1,027) Abattoir: a slaughterhouse; massacre Absinthe: wormwood liquor of a bright-green color Acciaccatura: grace note, an embellishing note usually written in smaller size Acedia: ennui; state of torpor or listlessness; spiritual apathy

The Book Seer | What should I read next | A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian

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Creating Fictional Characters—Part 4: Fleshing Out Characters with Tags, Traits, and Relationships : Lillie Ammann, Writer & Editor - StumbleUpon

You’ve got some basic ideas of what your character is like: gender, age, vocation, manner. As described in Finding and Creating Characters , you’ve given your character a problem, a need. Now you’re ready to flesh the character out. Even though you won’t reveal all this information about your character at first, you need to know enough about the character so his or her actions make sense. Tags, traits, and relationships help you turn a one-dimensional stereotype into a three-dimensional unique character. Tags help readers identify, differentiate, and distinguish between characters.