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Title
Contents
About the author
Acknowledgements
Dedication
Introduction
1 The basics of a Story
What is a Story?
2 Finding and Making Plots
How to Find a Plot
Relationship between Character and Plot
The Plot-Maker
3 Constructing a Plot with Pace and Movement
Building a Plot
Motivation
Revision
4 The Plot Ladder
Making a Plot Ladder
5 Conflict
Conflict in Storytelling
How to Create Conflict in a Scene where there is none
Objectives and Super-Objectives
A summary: Character need and Inner and Outer Story
6 What is Structure?
Story Structure: Beginning, Middle and end
A Simple Story Structure
Losing Control
Jumps
7 Story and Plot: the Principles of Connectedness and Causality
Connectedness
Causality
8 Plot Holes and Problems with Plot
Plot Holes
Other Plot Holes
Watertight Plots
Other Problems with Plot
How to Solve Problems with Plot
Do Plot Holes Matter?
9 The ‘Gold’ and the ‘MacGuffin’: Plot-Drivers, Confrontation and Disaster
The ‘Gold’
Fool’s gold
Disaster
Goals Lead to Action
Building Tension
Rising Action
Falling Action
Action and Reaction
10 The four Stages of a Story
Story Shape
Exposition
Complication
Obstacles
The Climax
Resolution
11 Understanding form and Structure
Sonata form
The Sestina
The Sonnet
Lipogram
Writing to a Format
12 Finding Perfect Story Shape: Proportion
Elegance and Efficiency
Structuring the Story
Proportion
The Time/Tension Relationship
13 Screenwriting Theory: Using the Three-Act Structure
The Value of Writing Theory
The Writing Process
Planning and Using a Plan
Screenwriting
14 Using Mythic Structure
Mythic Structure
The Writer’s Journey
Technology
The Hero Quest
Story Types
The Relevance of Screenwriting Theory
15 Other Story Models
Change and Tradition
Other Story Models
Visualization
The End
Afterword
Glossary
Taking it Further
Copyright
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