Finding The Plot

Author : Janell Cannon
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152062873
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stellaluna written by Janell Cannon and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After she falls headfirst into a bird's nest, a baby fruit bat is raised like a bird until she is reunited with her mother.

Author : Christopher Booker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441116516
Total Pages : 737 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Seven Basic Plots written by Christopher Booker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2005-11-11 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of 'basic stories' in the world. Using a wealth of examples, from ancient myths and folk tales via the plays and novels of great literature to the popular movies and TV soap operas of today, it shows that there are seven archetypal themes which recur throughout every kind of storytelling. But this is only the prelude to an investigation into how and why we are 'programmed' to imagine stories in these ways, and how they relate to the inmost patterns of human psychology. Drawing on a vast array of examples, from Proust to detective stories, from the Marquis de Sade to E.T., Christopher Booker then leads us through the extraordinary changes in the nature of storytelling over the past 200 years, and why so many stories have 'lost the plot' by losing touch with their underlying archetypal purpose. Booker analyses why evolution has given us the need to tell stories and illustrates how storytelling has provided a uniquely revealing mirror to mankind's psychological development over the past 5000 years. This seminal book opens up in an entirely new way our understanding of the real purpose storytelling plays in our lives, and will be a talking point for years to come.

Author : Janice Hardy
Publisher : Fiction University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780991536412
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plannng Your Novel written by Janice Hardy and published by Fiction University Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planning Your Novel: Ideas and Structure takes you step-by-step through finding and developing ideas, brainstorming stories, and crafting a solid plan for your novel--including a one-sentence pitch, summary hook blurb, and working synopsis. Over 100 different exercises lead you through the novel-planning process, with ten workshops that build upon each other to flesh out your idea as much or as little as you need to do to start writing. Find Exercises On: - Creating Characters - Choosing Point of View - Determining the Conflict - Finding Your Process - Developing Your Plot - And So Much More! Planning Your Novel: Ideas and Structure is an easy-to-follow guide to planning your novel, as well as a handy tool for revising a first draft, or fixing a novel that isn't quite working.

Author : Loïc Artiago
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443865443
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Finding the Plot written by Loïc Artiago and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-11 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Plot”, writes Peter Brooks, “is so basic to our very experience of reading, and indeed to our articulation of experience in general, that criticism has often passed it over in silence…” (Reading for the Plot, xi). Finding the Plot both explores and helps to redress this critical neglect. The book brings together an international group of scholars to address the nature, effects and specific pleasures of consuming stories. If the central focus is on France and popular literary fiction, the book’s scope – like contemporary fiction itself – observes no national frontiers, and extends across a variety of media. The book addresses both the empirical question of which genres and types of text have been and are most “popular”, and the theoretical questions of how plots work, what pleasures they offer to readers, and why it matters that the plot should not be lost.

Author : Roger Standing
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1620320312
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Finding the Plot written by Roger Standing and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-03-16 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Endorsements: "Preaching at its best is 'truth on fire.' The real quality of this book is that it has been created from the author's own experience of the local pastorate and is concerned with practical insights and realities. I warmly recommend it." --David Coffey, Moderator of the Free Churches and General Secretary of the Baptist Union "For some, the phrase 'finding the plot' suggests a stroll through a graveyard, which is much like their view of preaching. But Roger Standing uses the phrase to describe narrative preaching, an approach that helps preachers accomplish their essential task: to raise the dead." --Marshall Shelley, Vice President, Christianity Today International and editor of Leadership "This book, from a seasoned practitioner and an able thinker, will provide the signposts required by many either for transforming their preaching style in mid-career, or for setting off on the right foot." --Nigel G. Wright, Principal of Spurgeon's College, London "Roger Standing breezily shares his enthusiasm for narrative preaching. He combines theory about narrative and its cultural relevance with practical advice and preaching examples. A helpful stimulus to any preacher to branch out into narrative preaching." --Michael Quicke, Charles Koller Professor of Preaching and Communications Author Biography: Roger Standing is the Deputy Principal of Spurgeon's College in London, England, where he teaches Mission, Evangelism and Pioneer Ministry. His other publications include Preaching for the Unchurched in an Entertainment Culture and Re-Emerging Church: strategies for reaching a returning generation.

Author : Ann Treneman
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849546614
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Finding the Plot written by Ann Treneman and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ann Treneman, the award-winning Times writer best known for her incisive parliamentary sketches, has branched out - to graveyards. In this riveting book she takes you to the most interesting graves in Britain. You'll meet the real War Horse, the best 'funambulist' ever, Byron and his dog Boatswain, Florence Nightingale and her pet owl Athena, prime ministers, kings and queens, highwaymen, scientists, mistresses, the real James Bond and, of course, M. Then there are writers, painters, poets, rakes and rogues, victims, the meek and mild and the just plain mad. This unique book is made up of a hundred entries, each telling the story of one or more graves. Some are chosen for who is in them, others for the grave itself. Some of the entries are humorous, some are poignant, but all tell us something about the British way of death. At times absurd, at times astounding, in Finding the Plot Ann Treneman provides an entertaining guide to the Anglo-Saxon underworld.

Author : Louis Sachar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408818647
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom written by Louis Sachar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12-06 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wonderfully funny and richly warm novel by the bestselling, award-winning author of Holes. Meet Bradley Chalkers. He's the oldest child in the class. He tells ENORMOUS lies. He picks fights with girls. The teachers say he has 'serious behaviour problems'. And no one likes him ... Except Carla, the new school counsellor. She thinks Bradley is kind and generous, and she even enjoys his far-fetched stories. Carla knows that Bradley could change, if only he weren't afraid to try. Sometimes the hardest thing in the world is believing in yourself. A heartwarming story of bravery and acceptance from Louis Sachar, the bestselling author of Holes and Fuzzy Mud.

Author : Megan Rigers
Publisher : Demeter Press
ISBN 13 : 1772581607
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Finding the plot: A Maternal Approach to Madness in Literature written by Megan Rigers and published by Demeter Press. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past fifty years, feminist literary criticism has become theoretical rather than practical, severing any relationship between literary analysis and the real lived experiences of women. An example of this disconnect is the way in which the madwoman in feminist literature has become a lauded icon of liberation, when in reality her situation would be seen as anything but empowered. Finding the Plot takes this example to task, arguing that in fact any interpretation of women’s madness as subversive reinforces the very gender stereotypes that feminist literary criticism should be calling into question.

Author : Randy Ingermanson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781500574055
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Write a Novel Using the Snowflake Method written by Randy Ingermanson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Snowflake Method-ten battle-tested steps that jump-start your creativity and help you quickly map out your story.

Author : Daniel de Roulet
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 9781585585106
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Finding Your Plot in a Plotless World written by Daniel de Roulet and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world fell apart for author Daniel de Roulet the moment his son was diagnosed with autism. In Finding Your Plot in a Plotless World, de Roulet takes a closer look at those devastating moments in everyone's lives and the journey that follows. What do we do when our sense of God's plan for our lives crumbles around us? How do we find our plots in a seemingly plotless world? For answers, de Roulet looks to stories--those of our own culture and the Bible. Along the way, de Roulet encourages readers to be authentic as they tell their own stories and leaves them with hope that God reveals himself through our messy lives. EXCERPT Let me make something clear: I am convinced that for Christians, even in the darkest night, there is joy in the morning. God does work all things together--however unlikely the parts--for good for those who love him. But the roads of our progress from darkness to light will often be through murky or unpleasant waters, and our discoveries may not be as whole or as resounding as one could hope. But talking about the whole journey--darkness and light--is being honest to the condition of being human, and perhaps we can help others to begin to make the leap between the difficulties of the now and the promises of the not yet. Successful storytellers and teachers tend to meet their audiences where they are--not where they want them to be. There are times for all of us, Christian and non-Christian alike, when the world seems dark and senseless and morning seems far off, and these times are often when God's plot is the most relevant. And so this book talks about a journey from plotlessness to plot. Its chapters are meant to be guides for both reading God's stories: narratives that I think God uses to reach down into our own experiences and tell us about himself, and our own stories: the words that we use to tell our experiences to each other and, I believe, to God.