It's been said that there are only seven basic plots in fiction. Pulp novelist William Wallace Cook would beg to differ. According to Cook, there are a whopping 1,462 plots, all of which he laid out ...
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 ...
In separate interviews conducted this week from ‘Green Hornet’ press, both Goldberg and Rogen revealed the basic plotline. “It’s a movie about sausages in a supermarket that need to get back to their ...