Noble, W. y Noble, J. (2014) Steal this plot: A writer’s guide to story structure and plagiarism [Versión para lector digital]. The Write thought, Inc.
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Destacado: Suspicion This story spicer occurs in the minds of the characters rather than as an overt event.
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Destacado: idea, attach one or more of these motivators to it, and you’ll have a plot and a story line. In no particular order of importance the plot motivators are: Vengeance Catastrophe Love and Hate The Chase Grief and Loss Rebellion Betrayal Persecution Self-Sacrifice Survival (deliverance) Rivalry Discovery (quest) Ambition
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Destacado: Authority is the power to command through behavior or thoughts or opinion
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Destacado: But stories must do something. They must go somewhere. It’s not enough to say I’ll write a story about a man goin
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Destacado: Rescue Most commonly, this story spicer can be found when the plot involves physical danger or peril. Will he/she make it?
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Destacado: Because people doing anything against the law is, in itself, an effective story tool. Conspiracy can be a criminal act, and so it can be linked with criminal action, another story spicer.
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Destacado: Mistaken Identity It started with the gods and goddesses in the earliest Greek legends. Zeus and Hera and Apollo and Athena and Aphrodite — all would assume mortal roles
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Destacado: limited list of plot motivators can be found acting to carry each story forward. Thirteen plot motivators? Thirteen.
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Destacado: The idea of suicide comes in many forms: as a political statement, as the ultimate despair in a failed love affair, as the only release from degradation and horror, as a form of penance, as a compulsive pursuit of unlimited earthly pleasures. Motivations are as varied as the ways we set about killin
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Destacado: Deception is trickery; it’s double dealing, fraud and cheating. It doesn’t have to spring from dark-hearted motivation; there are deceptions clearly justified
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Destacado: Conspiracy Two or more people meet, they plot, they plan to do something, they have an end in mind — some definite goal. They conspire.
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Destacado: Deception Material Well-Being (Increase or Loss of) Criminal Action (Including Murder) Making Amends Conspiracy Rescue Mistaken Identity Unnatural Affection Authority Suspicion Suicide Searching Honor and Dishono
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Destacado: conspiracy implies illegality
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Destacado: point is that any form of passion, whether physical, emotional or both, that steps out of the normal man-woman, adult-adult, non-blood-related framework has a claim to be called ‘ ‘unnatural,” and this surely creates an intriguing story line.
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Destacado: fishing. He must be going fishing because. . . or as he is fishing, an event occurs which affects his life… or his fishing is really a metaphor for something else. The story must be affected by some type of situation which moves
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Destacado: Mistaken identity works from two directions: we see it from the point of view of the one assuming the wrong identity or from the aspect of those relying on the wrong identity. Either way we have a built-in story advantage: will anyone discov
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Destacado: Because a plot — the story within a story — without some direction is like a large boulder in a bubbling stream. It’s a lovely scene. You see it, you might even be able to touch it, but it doesn’t move\ Plot motivators make a story
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Destacado: In Goethe’s Faust it takes a lifetime of orgiastic pleasure-seeking for Faust to realize that helping others and providing for their happiness and contentment is the only true source of joy and fulfillment. After taking, taking, taking he finally sees that giving is by far the happier alternative. He makes his amends that way. Amends-making works best with plot motivators which focus on someone suffering or hurt or otherwise wronged.