| About the Book
"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."
Kevin
Kling, Storyteller and NPR Commentator.
"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. If you want to expand your narrative
horizons, this will get you started. Using variations of "Jack and
the Beanstalk" and original stories from the author's repertoire,
it examines the construction and limitations of ten narrative forms,
including revelation, meta-narration, and parallel plots. Developed
and tested in workshops over the course of a decade, this text
contains helpful formulas for each plot form and useful exercises for
making stories.
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