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crich70 · 03-17-2015, 08:49 AM

I've been reading over Plotto by William Wallace Cook and he breaks the creation of a "Master Plot" into 3 basic parts:
1. A Clause - Protagonist clause (desire)
2. B. Clause - this initiates and develops the action (conflict)
3. C. Clause - this continues and terminates the action (goal)
Basically he beat me to the Desire/Goal idea by a good margin. It still makes sense though. Character has to have a desire for something, a reason they can't just have it, and there has to be a resolution (good or bad) to their quest to obtain it.
One example that comes to mind is the 1st Indiana Jones movie.

Spoiler:

03-17-2015, 08:49 AM	#7
crich70 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,310 Karma: 43993832 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Monroe Wisconsin Device: K3, Kindle Paperwhite, Calibre, and Mobipocket for Pc (netbook)	I've been reading over Plotto by William Wallace Cook and he breaks the creation of a "Master Plot" into 3 basic parts: 1. A Clause - Protagonist clause (desire) 2. B. Clause - this initiates and develops the action (conflict) 3. C. Clause - this continues and terminates the action (goal) Basically he beat me to the Desire/Goal idea by a good margin. It still makes sense though. Character has to have a desire for something, a reason they can't just have it, and there has to be a resolution (good or bad) to their quest to obtain it. One example that comes to mind is the 1st Indiana Jones movie. Spoiler: 1. Indy wants to find and get the Arc of the Covenant to safety 2. The Nazi's want the Arc for their own evil purposes 3. Indy saves the Arc from going to Nazi Germany only to have the U.S. Government tuck it away in some anon. warehouse where it may never be found.