This book shows the reader how to take timeless storytelling structures   and make them immediate, now, for fiction that's universal in how it speaks to the   reader's heart and contemporary in detail and impact.    Each chapter includes brief excerpts and descriptions of fiction from many times, many   genres - myth and fairy tale, genre and mainstream fiction, film plots of all types, short   story and novel.     Find 20 fundamental plots that recur through all fiction - with analysis and examples -   that outline benefits and warnings, for writers to adapt and elaborate in their own fiction.      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.

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