Ballardian: The World of JG Ballard. Internet Public Library: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), or You Are Not Alone (Maybe) Example Questions That Can Be Answered Using This FAQ I’ve heard there are only 7 (or 5, 20, 36…) basic plots (or themes) in all of literature. What are they? People often say that there are only a certain number of basic plots in all of literature, and that any story is really just a variation on these plots. Depending on how detailed they want to make a "basic" plot, different writers have offered a variety of solutions. Here are some of the ones we’ve found: 1 Plot | 3 Plots | 7 Plots | 20 Plots | 36 Plots 1 Plot: Attempts to find the number of basic plots in literature cannot be resolved any more tightly than to describe a single basic plot. 3 Plots: Foster-Harris.
"’Type A, happy ending’"; Foster-Harris argues that the "Type A" pattern results when the central character (which he calls the "I-nitial" character) makes a sacrifice (a decision that seems logically "wrong") for the sake of another 7 Plots 7 basic plots as remembered from second grade by IPL volunteer librarian Jessamyn West: The Seven Main Plots in All of Literature = ??? WORDPLAY/Archives/Polti: Situ 01-12. World Adventure Writing Month ‘08. Rebecca Solnit, The Archipelago of Arrogance. A Call for Stories « Christopher Barzak’s. The Interstitial Arts Foundation will be publishing a second volume of Interfictions. The first volume was edited by Delia Sherman and Theodora Goss. I’ve been asked to fill the co-editor seat for this second volume, and am excited to be along for the ride.
Below are the guidelines for the next volume. We would love to see work from you all, so please distribute these guidelines near and far to help spread the word. And then send us your best when the reading period opens this coming October! For Interfictions II: The Second Anthology of Interstitial Writing Editors Delia Sherman and Christopher Barzak We invite submissions for an Anthology of Interstitial Fiction, to be published by Small Beer Press under the auspices of the Interstitial Arts Foundation in ???
What We’re Looking For Interstitial Fiction is all about breaking rules, ignoring boundaries, cross-pollinating the fields of literature. We are also open to graphic stories of about 10 pages. Who We’re Looking For Practical Matters. Name Lists - Treasure Tables GMing Wiki. This is part 1 of 2 of a guest post by John Arcadian of Silvervine Games. The Silvervine website itself is a wiki, and it holds lots of info about their campaign world, Cyrus. John responded to my request for a post on this topic (which I made at the end of TiddlyWiki as a GMing Tool) — thanks, John!
- – - – - The topic of wikis as GMing tools has come up recently on TT, and there are a lot of great ways that GMs can use wikis. You can use a wiki as a campaign chronicle, and keep logs and records of all of your players’ journeys. If you are creating your own world and want to give your characters detailed access to background information, you can tailor your wiki for worldbuilding. You can use your wiki to keep your GMing notes and have quick access to them from any computer.
With the proper use of groups, passwords and detailed links, you can even use one wiki for all of these purposes. However you decide to use your wiki, though, there are a few things which should be kept in mind. Basics. Third Wednesday. Product Details. WritersDigest.com. When it all falls down. Deanna Hoak - Doing Our Best. Several people have requested that I write about what they can do to make the copyeditor's job easier.
First, I have to say thank you to those people, and to anyone else who's taking the time to consider that question. Anything an author can do to make the copyeditor's job easier is likely to result in a better finished product for the author. There are specific steps you can take to ease the process. Rather than just list them in general, such as "Use standard manuscript format" (which I actually see too little of in the manuscripts I copyedit), I'll explain each item so that you understand why it's important. Double space all elements of your manuscript (this includes footnotes, extracts, etc.). Use 12-point type. Use Courier. Barbarienne, who works in production at one of the major publishers, has assured me on multiple occasions that she sees far fewer typos at the page-proof stage when the author has used Courier rather than Times.
Use the # symbol to indicate a line space. Strunk, William. 1918. The Elements of Style. Interview: Neil Gaiman and Joss Wedon -- Page 1. Joss Whedon and Neil Gaiman may well be the two most interesting people creating popular culture right now. Whedon is the man behind Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, and he wrote and directed the science fiction film Serenity, which opens Sept. 30th. Gaiman created the instant-classic comic book Sandman, and he's the author of the new novel Anansi Boys, out this month. He has a new movie, Mirrormask, which also opens Sept. 30. They chatted on the phone together—chaperoned by TIME's Lev Grossman—about their work, their fans, their Klingon bodyguards and, of course, Timecop.
TIME: Joss, this is Lev from Time magazine. You're also in the virtual presence of Neil Gaiman. Neil Gaiman: I'm not virtual. TIME: Sorry. Joss Wedon: Okay. TIME: I'm glad we settled that. JW: Nice to meet you. NG: You, too. JW: Yes. NG: Exactly. TIME: I think there's actually a law that you guys can't be in the same room at the same time. JW: Like the two Ron Silvers in Timecop. NG: It will be National Geek Day. POD printer round up. The Word Meter. Real people in fake stories. What are the legal ramifications of using a real person in a fictional story? Do you have to have their permission? For instance, what if a character accidentally bumps into a celebrity on the street. No words are exchanged, just an acknowledgment of the fictional character's brush with fame. Or, even more involving, what if a story centered on the completely fictional account of a celbrity's kidnapping... or a love story involving a fictional character and a celebrity.
NOTE: When I say "celebrity," I don't mean celebrity in the tabloid sense... necessarily. Do the legal issues focus on the extent of the real person's involvement in the story? Writerisms and other Sins: A Writer's Shortcut to Stronger Writing by C.J. Cherryh. Interview with Frank Herbert and Beverly Herbert by Willis E. McNelly. Docbrite: Me & Neil. Levenger Lap Desk, Wallets, Bookstands, Totes, Journals, Card Holders, Briefcases & PDA Cases. Language Is A Virus. Jack Kerouac's Essentials of Spontaneous Prose If possible write "without consciousness" in semi-trance (as Yeats' later "trance writing") allowing subconscious to admit in own uninhibited interesting necessary and so "modern" language... 66 Writing Experiments 5.
Tristan Tzara's hat: Everyone in a group writes down a word (alternative: phrase, line) and puts it in a hat. Poem is made according to the order in which it is randomly pulled from hat... William S. The cutup is a mechanical method of juxtaposition in which Burroughs literally cuts up passages of prose by himself and other writers and then pastes them back together at random... I Have Powers - Useful Playtesting.