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Here are My Ideas for Writing a Plot.
Flow. Fast and slow. With rhythm and pacing and dynamic situations. Stock trading and business deals. Path. Twists and turns. With tactics and incidents. Chases and races. Information trail. Police chasing robbers. Energy. Roller coaster. With highs and lows. War and peace. Storm and calm.
Focus. Short and long focus. With short crisis and long effects. Basic current events and long background flashbacks. Biography and history. Details. Straight and intricate. With strategy and understanding. High goals. Specialized details and variations. Analysis of life event.
Suspense. Crime and investigation. With search and discovery. Crisis and aftermath. Detective mystery and exploration discovery. Reality. Deep philosophy and basic living. With mythology and religious theory. Beauty of simple life. Mysticism or science. Conspiracies and hideouts.
Markets. Business and deal making. With money and banking. Trade and commerce. Tycoon stories and business enterprise. Technology. Futuristic ideas and currently routine concepts. With paradigm shifts and speculation. Stunning tech gadgets and space ships.
Personal. Science versus emotion. Cosmic and personal. External chaos and understanding within. Sports triumph after struggles. Groups. Relationships and interaction. With dealings and resolutions. Dynamics and changes. Activist movements with meetings and speeches. Command. Organization and hierarchy. With management and control. Order and chaos. Politics, military, business. Or teams and families.
List of Plots from Christopher Booker.
Overcoming the Monster. Need the energy and skills and know how and fitness. Mission Impossible. War of the Worlds. Rags to Riches. Reaches potential of success in society. Positive outcome. Jerry Maguire. Color of Money. Quest. Tries to achieve a great prize or fortune or journey. Top Gun. Voyage and Return. Goes to a different place and learns and returns for home and values. The Last Samurai. Comedy. Funny humor satire and happy. Knight and Day. Tropic Thunder. Tragedy. Difficult outcome. A Few Good Men. Valkyrie. Rebirth. Someone helps to escape a bad situation for a good outcome. Oblivion. The Firm. Mystery. Investigation to solve a puzzle. Edge of Tomorrow. Jack Reacher. Rebellion. Fight against the establishment. Born on the Fourth of July. Minority Report.
Meta Plot.
Anticipation stage for the setting. Dream stage for a good start. Frustration stage for difficult events. Nightmare stage for climax. Resolution stage for success finally!
Shayla Raquel has given ideas for 100 stories!
These are really bizarre. Just to get people to think more sensibly. Read the post in entirety: I have just copied the sensible buzz words.
Bizarre stuff. Split world. Another world door. No light. Cursed idol. Wormholes. Monsters in London. Chicago tornado. Antarctica livable. Willy Wonka Wonderland. Theme park mansion. Roswell evidence. Disappearing baby. Secret moon landing. Hunt for journal. Bible museum. Elephant and fish. Life on Mars. Live mythical creatures. Imaginary friend.
Legal stuff. Work and riot. No holidays. King in America. Music banned. Everything legal. Modern Hitler. Religion is illegal. Prison escape. Legal drugs. Lawyer sells corpse. Internet shutdown.
Writing stuff. Books in gibberish. Deceased love note. False history. Computer hacker. Romance novel. Real stories.
Hero stuff. Villains to heroes. Killer is savior. Ex-Marine returns. Cop changes. Savings to strangers. Elderly retaliate. Widow orphans. Child saves town. Teenagers fight war. Boy saves restaurant.
Love stuff. Kind and opposite couple. Charity and feelings. Teen in India. Funeral love. Most beautiful woman. Excavator and mummy. Island paradise. Deaf loves singer. Investigator loves criminal.
People stuff. Last man in world. Vagrant executive. Clone takes over. Blind rider. Lucid dreaming. Robot love. Asthma hiker. Strange neighbors. Remains of explorer. Mission to China. Accused of murder.
Crime stuff. Richest man robbed. Exiled nun. Corrupt politician. Lose inheritance. Copycat killer. Freak accident. Bad superhero. Janitor abducted. Team kidnapped. Rare jewel. Heinous crime. Assassin holiday. Cop in gang. Last hit job. Street gang. Teenage blackmail. Bomb in town.
Illness stuff. Cancer cure hidden. Precious toxin stone. Plague of genius. Schizophrenic and Alzheimer’s. Truth serum. Rabid animals. Toxic perfume. Alien cats. New dinosaur. Government virus. Rats in NYC. Pharmacist switches medication. Cannibal. Bionic limbs. Drug diary. Girl creates illness. Obesity drug.
3 Basic plots.
William Foster Harris. Happy ending. Unhappy ending. Tragedy.
20 Master Plots.
Ronald Tobias. Wretched Excess. Dissension. Revenge. Rivalry. Underdog. Temptation. Forbidden Love.
The Riddle. Discovery. Quest. Adventure. Pursuit. Rescue. Escape. Metamorphosis. Transformation. Maturation. Love. Sacrifice. Ascension.
36 Dramatic Situations.
Georges Polti. Madness. Loss of loved ones. Discovery of the dishonor of a loved one. Supplication. Disaster. Falling prey to cruelty/misfortune. Abduction. Crime pursued by vengeance. Vengeance taken for kin upon kin.
Enmity of kin. Rivalry of kin. Slaying of kin unrecognized. Murderous adultery. Involuntary crimes of love. Adultery. Crimes of love. Mistaken jealousy. Fatal imprudence. Erroneous judgment. Remorse. Conflict with a god. Necessity of sacrificing loved ones.
Self-sacrifice for an ideal. Self-sacrifice for kin. All sacrificed for passion. Revolt. Obstacles to love. Ambition. Rivalry of superior vs. inferior. The enigma. Pursuit. Daring enterprise. Obtaining. Deliverance. An enemy loved. Recovery of a lost one.
6 plots.
Kurt Vonnegut. Emotional Arcs. Hedonometric analysis. Tragedy or riches to rags. Fall. Hero fails to meet potential. Icarus. Rise, Fall. Things going bad. Oedipus. Fall, Rise, Fall. Things going badly, turnaround, downhill again.
Rags to riches. Rise. Hero meets potential. Man in a hole. Fall, Rise. Getting out of trouble. Cinderella. Rise, Fall, Rise. Things going well, tragedy, happiness restored.
Variety of Plots Listed on DailyWritingTips.com.
Heroes Journey. Basic Stages. Character Arc.
Ordinary World. Limited awareness of problem. Call to Adventure. Increased awareness. Refusal of Call. Reluctance to change.
Meeting the Mentor. Overcoming reluctance. Crossing the First Threshold. Committing to change. Tests, Allies, Enemies. Experimenting with 1st change. Approach to the Inmost Cave. Preparing for big change. Supreme Ordeal. Attempting big change.
Reward. Consequences of the attempt. The Road Back. Rededication to change. Resurrection. Final attempt at big change. Return with Elixir. Final mastery of the problem.
Card’s MICE quotient. Orson Scott Card.
Steps: Milieu. Idea. Character. Event.
John Gardner. Only Two Plots.
Outside: A person goes on a journey. Home: A stranger comes to town.
Blake Snyder. Ten screenplays.
Strange: Monster in the House. Out of the Bottle. Complex: Whydunit. Rites of Passage. Group: Institutionalized. Buddy Love. Win: Golden Fleece. Superhero. Dude with a Problem. The Fool Triumphant.
7 Plots. IPL volunteer librarian Jessamyn West.
Person against Nature. Man. Environment. Tech. Supernatural. Self. Religion.
Plots from Daily writing tips.
Some more ideas from dailywritingtips, just in case.
Comprehensive Plots from Vulture.
Vulture actually has an encyclopedia of every Literary Plot. No need to speculate!
Allegorical Adventure. Artistic Coming of Age. Magical Metamorphosis. Moral-Ambiguity Variation Pursuit. Wife As Phoenix.
Natural Adventure. Coming of Age. Innocent’s Tale. Love Story: The Marriage Plot. Internal Metamorphosis. Picaresque. Pursuit. Classic Quest. Rags to Riches. Rescue. Rise and Fall. Romantic Comedy. Voyage and Return.
Group Coming of Age. Good-Guy-Bad-Guy Alliance. Family Reunion. Family Saga. Parallel Stories. Rashomon. The Rise of One, the Fall of Another. Symphony Story.
Rivalry of Equals. Rivalry of Unequals. Jealousy Variation Rivalry of Unequals. Spy-Versus-Spy Story.
Discovery of Hidden Parentage. Discovery of the Secretly Alive. Discovery of the Secretly Nonexistent. Missing Person. Mistaken Identity. Spy Story. Trial. Return As MacGuffin Voyage.
Locked Room Mystery. Existential Mystery. Mirror Version Mystery. Open-Ended Mystery. Ticking Clock Mystery.
The Con. The Con Artist Gets Conned. Discovery of a Lie. The Impostor. MacGuffin Variation Quest. Revenge. Stalker. Tall Tales.
Adultery. Discovery of Incest. Tragic Forbidden Love. Triumphant Forbidden Love. Caretaker Variation Stalker.
Love Story: The Hate Plot. Love Story: Obsession. Love Thwarted and Mourned. Estate Division.
Me Against the Apocalypse. Me Against Machine. Me Against the World. Show Trial.
Death Plot. Death As MacGuffin. Excessive Revenge. Tragedy. Trial by Suffering. War at the Front. War on the Home Front.
Descent Into Madness. Descent Into Addiction. Domesticity Meltdown. Insane Narrator. The Knausgaard. Pandora’s Box.
Summary.
Plenty of Plots to Choose from for the novel. Adventures for the Characters in various Settings as the writer Narrates.
Choice. Is it going to a simple plot, or series of plots, or sub plots. How intricate and delicate will the plots be and how much expertise to understand. Will the plots be subtle for interpretation or exciting and bold. Will they based on the current world situation or political environment. Or current well known personalities.
Deciding. Is the story going to be full of energy. Or twists and turns along a journey to a goal. Will it be about thinking and complications or particular technical fields of knowledge. About nature and outdoors or universities and hospitals and law. About business or government or spirituality. Or about morality of people and groups and relationships.
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