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Main/The Seven Basic Plots. Note: This page was cut for reason: Main redirect to work. [Malady] Creating red links in 0 articles. Abandoning 40458 inbound links. You may want to ask in Ask The Tropers about whether it's safe to recreate. Inexact title. Literature/The Seven Basic Plots If you meant one of those, just click and go. 25 Ways To Fuck With Your Characters. As storyteller, you are god. And to be frank, you’re not a particularly nice god — at least, not if you want your story to resonate with readers. A good storyteller is a crass and callous deity who treats the characters under his watchful eye like a series of troubled butt-puppets. From this essential conflict — storyteller versus character — a story is born. (After all, that’s what a plot truly is: a character who strives to get above all the shit the storyteller dumps on his fool head.)

Put differently, as a storyteller it’s your job to be a dick. It’s your job to fuck endlessly with the characters twisting beneath your thumb. And here’s 25 ways for you to do just that. 1. Gods have avatars, mortal or semi-mortal beings that exist on earth to embody the deity’s agenda. 2. The audience and the character must know the stakes on the table — “If you don’t win this poker game, your grandmother will lose her beloved pet orangutan, Orange Julius.” 3. 4. 5. 6.

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If God Were on Facebook. Socially Awkward Penguin.