On Writing- The Seven Basic Plots: Overcoming the Monster Part 1
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- This is part one of our series of talks about the Seven Basic Plots: Overcoming the Monster. If you would like to get the most out of this lecture, you should watch:
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Overcoming the Monster Part 2: • On Writing -The Seven ...
Introduction to the Seven Basic Plots: • On Writing - The Seven...
I mentioned a book by David Brooks called The Second Mountain
A lecture I keep returning to. Thank you so much
Thank you Zac
Really appreciate the content. Going on to part two !
Woah! You are moving right through them!
I Dont know why bt I like your way of describing this ..your presentations .(.(it makes more sense right now than when I was looking at Richard R and J Pageau s yt
Thank you SacraTessan, I appreciate your taking the time to watch
@Justin Wells
A suggestion or two, and please take them with a pinch of salt. Love what you’ve done so far. Have read Booker’s book but need more. This series could fill this gap. First suggestion re-label all your titles. Stick with the same title structure... Example The 7 Basic Plots:00 Introduction. The 7 Basic Plots:01 Rags to Riches. The 7 Basic Plots:02 Overcoming the Monster Part1. Part2 would be 02.1 if you need subsection videos later, you get the idea? The reason is simple, I’ve already built a file to house these YT videos and they need to be ordered. If you turn it into a course, then yes you need to do this...
Next, decide whether it’s just you talking along like a coffee morning blog, or you really want to turn it into a course? On your front panel in which you give a brief description of the Video’s content it ends with a ‘Show more’ tag. You use this already to highlight different shows to watch.
However, these needs taking further for your viewer. You need to breakdown each video into chapters and have them linked with time slot jumps. This is a lot of work but does pay off. A one hour lecture I can come back too to continue watching or re-watch an item. Look at the link below on Brandon Sanderson’s lecture and the Show more drop down.
Lecture #1: Introduction - Brandon Sanderson on Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy - RUclips
Finally, and please take this as not a criticism just an observation. In all three videos you start early on with your Two Mountains idea and how the plots appear on them. You repeat or add to the whole system from the intro in Part02. I fully expect you to do this in the Voyage & Return and so on. Suggest you start with each plot and where it fits in the two-mountain system. Briefly what immediately preceded it and what’s to follow. And why.
Decide whether to do a full deep dive into the Two Mountain System as a separate item completely. A subsection to the Introduction like 00.01 Two Mountains. Then you can refer to it in each Video that pops up a link at the right time in the top corner.
Lastly, at the end of each video on your wrap up, on the screen top left provides a link to the pervious RUclips chapter and on the right the next in the series. Also, bottom left an additional link you’ve created....
Martin.
Cool man thanks so much for this!
This is actually one of the main reasons I’m putting the videos out, to get feedback on what works and what doesn’t work for people. All of your suggestions are excellent!
Very good explanation, I am learning a lot!
Glad it was helpful!
Enjoying! Generous output from yourself! Appreciated.
Thank you Janet. I am enjoying the process of thinking through these plot types
Extraordinary description of Overcoming the Monster! I love your take on the hidden clue disclosed in a conversation after the Midpoint and your analysis of the Fool's and the Mentor's roles. Can't wait to watch part two!!
Hey man, cool! I’m glad you took the time to ruminate along with me on this.
Can't Wait to watch this!
I will check out this BADBOY in a SEcond!
Hahah thanks Dario
*having a cup of coffee, listening to well spoken words*
Thanks Michael
In the book, and other videos it placed overcoming the monster as the first one. Thoughts on this?
Yes, that’s right! I switch the order a little bit because I think of them all as following a typical life-path.
Rags to Riches (in my view) is about going from pure potential to competence in the world.
What happens once you start to have some success? Usually, that’s when you meet your bullies, your monsters, and your nefarious figures. So I like to think about it as sort of a natural progression: once you have had a rags to riches type story (in which the antagonist is quite often a maladaptive step parent or guardian/authority figure) - THEN you’ll be primed for your overcoming the monster story - wherein you learn that there are entities in the world who want to “eat” you, and you have to protect the measure of habitable order that you had previously built.
So since I’m adding the two mountains system to Booker’s 7 basic plots, I’ve been tinkering with the order, sort of as if they all together comprise a “meta-story” of sorts.
Really enjoyed this
Cool!