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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Okay, so this is going to take a bit of explaining.

I was doing some research for another project when I came across a book from 1921 that purported to have classified all the dramatic situations that can occur in stories. Supposedly there were 36 of these split into sub-types. I think in the 100 years since there a few more have been found, but that's beside the point.

The point was I looked at this list of situations and immediately went "Holy cow, this is a great prompt list."

Look, when inspiration strikes after you've written absolutely nothing for three months, you run with it.

The first situation was Fugitives Imploring the Powerful for Help Against Their Enemies. 500 words later, here is the result.

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The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations: Director Mike Figgis updates a writer’s classic for the 21st century

The granddaddy of all plot books, the original Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations was written in the 1850s by Georges Polti (in French), boiling down all drama as being one of 36 situations as defined by the author. Director Mike Figgis, best known for Leaving Las Vegas and Internal Affairs, was leafing through this seminal work while cleaning bookshelves, and recognizing Polti’s work as a powerful…

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Writing Prompts for July

Thus begins a new monthly feature, whereupon I offer you a smattering of writing prompts, using the Story Starter I stole from Chuck Wendig, or The Brainstormer app on my phone. Partly because Camp NaNoWriMo is coming up, and people sometimes panic and blank on coming up with an idea. (Even those who usually can’t keep up with all the plot bunnies breeding in their brains most of the time.) But…

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What would you do if a book told you about your life?

I kept my eyes focused on the short road. It is funny cause when that question was asked, the choice had to be made: Left, or Right? I vied for the middle. "Would you read it?" My thoughts kind of yammered on different whole ideas.

"I have!" "36dramatic situations" "They recently remade the book into a movie" ""There is a band, they are awesome, Heard of Coheed and Cambria?" "I am the reincarnation of Lewis Carols psychotic unfulfilled thoughts"

More or less, I know what is going to happen in my life already. I catch hints of it in many different books and songs. Any creative medium that I feel I can relate or reflect on are things that are drawn from real life. Its just finding the thing that applies. I had once thought myself to be a writer. But I kind of lost interest when there are aeons of writings that depict the human condition. Countless situations that mathematically bore to an answer equating to the existence of an outcome. "Something like it already has happened. I choose to forget it each day." "How so?" Then I go into the fact that people can only get into so many situations, that some repeat themselves. Mine, would be a specific book, Alice Adventures in Wonderland. Its just an encrypted in creativity, idioms, analogies, and forward literal interpretations.

I think I am actually foolish enough to sit and twist the encryptions.

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