One of my favorite things in the world is Slightly Foxed: the Real Reader’s Quarterly. It’s a quarterly magazine, published in London, that features short essays written by people about books they ...

The struggling screenwriter need never fear writer’s block again! A 1919 writing manual, unearthed by Slate's Rebecca Onion, outlines the 37 basic plots of any possible story. The 96-year-old manual ...

There was quite a bit of chatter at Cannes Lions this year when Samsung’s CMO, YoungHee Lee, uttered the word “storyliving” onstage during a presentation at the Palais. While I can’t quite figure out ...

A great way to support planning stories with structures. It has often been suggested that there are only seven basic plots a story can use. This pack contains five story summaries, each covering a ...

If only there had been data mining around in Aristotle’s time. The Greek philosopher was one of the first to try to define how many different stories there are in the world. He believed that every ...

Kick off your literature class with The Seven Basic Plots PowerPoint (40 Slides) based on Christopher Booker’s renowned book used in college classrooms across the country. Product addresses each plot ...