The Book of Plots book.
The Book of Plots book. Details (if other): Cancel. Thanks for telling us about the problem. A starting point for writers and storytellers learning to understand and craft engaging narratives.
A starting point for writers and storytellers learning to understand and craft engaging narratives, this volume examines ten useful plot forms, and provides samples of how they are constructed and exercises for the development of original and adopted material.
Wanting to make a connection between the older stories and our existential circumstance, I sought to re-interpret folk and fairy tales by placing them in a more contemporary context.
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His insights are so well expressed and so clearly communicated, I predict it will become a standard for generations of story writers and tellers. -Syd Lieberman, Golden Apple recipient for excellence in teaching, Evanston, Illinois. Niemi’s Book of Plots is an incredible resource for teachers of written or oral expression.
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I use Loren's plot templates both as a teller and a teacher. He honors the tradition and also keeps it living and growing new directions with a great tool for cobbling tales. One of the best tools to break open a story that is stuck and finding new ways to view and interpret your raw material. Nancy Donoval, Storyteller/Coach This is a primer of useful plots for storytellers, writers, and any professional (lawyer, minister, CEO) who needs to craft facts and themes into an engaging whole.
This month Michael and Laura spoke with Loren Niemi. Loren is also an author
This month Michael and Laura spoke with Loren Niemi. Loren is a storyteller with 40 years of creating, performing and teaching stories that matter. Loren is also an author. His books include the award winning The New Book of Plots, an examination of oral and written narratives, and the critically acclaimed Inviting the Wolf In: Thinking About Difficult Stories, which he co-authored with Elizabeth Ellis. In 2016 he received the National Storytelling Network’s Lifetime Achievement Award. His collection of original and collected ghost stories What Haunts Us came out in February 2019. ww. orenniemistories.
Loren Niemi has been captivating audiences with his riveting storytelling for more than forty years. His first published story collection is an evocative compendium of stories he has performed on many stages, along with new explorations of paranormal mysteries which arise at the intersection of the ordinary, flicker in the imagination, and dwell in memory. He is a published author of the award winning The New Book of Plots on the use of narratives in oral and written forms and the co-author with Elizabeth Ellis of the critically acclaimed Inviting the Wolf In: Thinking About Difficult Stories on the value and necessity of stories that are hard to hear and harder to tell.
Plotto, reissued last month by Tin House, was a manual that aimed to mechanize the entire narrative trade. In his introduction, Paul Collins recognizes that Cook was something of a plot machine himself, once writing fifty-four novels in a year, more than one a week. While still a young director in England, Alfred Hitchcock requested the book from America, and the creator of the courtroom drama Perry Mason claimed he had learned a great deal from it. The success of Plotto inspired other write-for-pay miracle workers.