20 Master Plots, Ronald B. Tobias
20 Master Plots, Ronald B. Tobias
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20 Master Plots
And How to Build Them

Author: Ronald B. Tobias

Narrator: Barry Abrams

Unabridged: 9 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/26/2019


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About Ronald B. Tobias

Ronald B. Tobias has spent his career as a writer moving from genre to genre, first as a short story writer, then as an author of fiction and nonfiction books and finally as a writer and producer of documentaries for public television. He is currently a professor in the Department of Media and Theatre Arts at Montana State University and the author of The Insider's Guide to Writing for Screen and Television. He lives in Bozeman, Montana.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sage on August 27, 2012

Published in 1993. The politics and world-view is dated, and the overt homophobia and ingrained Judeo-Christian moral sensibility are a little surprising. Likewise, the race and class issues are rampant, but the determined use of female and male pronouns in his examples is both welcome and sort of a......more

Goodreads review by Elf on October 30, 2011

There are dozens of books that promise to list out all of the plots possible. From Heinlien's famous three to George Polti's The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations, writers have been attempting to codify what makes a plot a plot. Tobias' contribution is certainly in that same vein, but this is proba......more

Goodreads review by Amirhossein on November 20, 2020

《بیست کهن‌الگوی پیرنگ》 بهتون فیلمنامه‌نویسی یاد نمی‌ده؛ اما متداول‌ترین پیرنگ‌های فیلمنامه داستانی و جزئیاتش رو یاد می‌ده. نکته مهم درباره این کتاب اینه که، اون مفهموم ظرف‌‌مانندی که برای پلات بیان می‌شه رو کاملا در ذهن جا می‌ندازه، و به نظرم دستاورد بزرگیه. ترجمه آقای راهنشین به شدت روانه، اما یه چی......more

Goodreads review by Mehdi on January 03, 2025

یه کتاب خیلی خوب برای نویسنده‌ها. هم داستان‌نویس‌ها و هم فیلمنامه‌نویس‌ها. 🖊 ماجرای پیرنگ با ایده کمی متفاوته. گرچه تاحدودی نزدیک و مرتبط هستن. خیلی از داستان‌ها می‌تونن پیرنگ مشابه‌ای داشته باشن. به عنوان مثال صدها داستان می‌تونه با پیرنگ "ماجراجویی" یا "انتقام" نوشته بشه. اما ایده‌‌ و پرداختشون باید م......more