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The Polti Plot Outline

If a computer could write you a story, then you as a storyteller are redundant. You know what you want to write. The outlines are to stimulate your thinking, and help you overcome writer’s block. The plot outliner simply juxtaposes, not in any logical way, some Polti categories to give you ideas for plots. Often a broad situation is given first, then a few plot outlines to use as a main and subplots—you decide which, or how you blend them with the story you already have. The logic of your own story is your’s.

A conspirator acting alone conspire to overthrow An occupying power. The supreme folly, opposing an immense power is literally the most ancient of plots. Once a god or demon, today it is a schoolmaster to a child, amounting to struggle of any inferior with a superior, justified or misunderstood, giving many creative opportunities, or the conflict is with believers in the god, and the outcome punishment for pride before the god.

The protagonist discovering the dishonour of a loved one brings in dishonor and psychological struggles. The discovery is of the shame of the shame of a lover such as dishonor in the family of a fiancee. Or the plot could be the duty of sacrificing the one discovered as dishonourable like a son believed to be guilty. Economic migrants appeal to some authority for salvation from a persecutor who voluntarily oppresses them using a subtle network of diplomacy. They implore for deliverance from their fate. The artless protagonist steps forward to appeal on their behalf in response to a request by his dearest friend. The power in authority, inferior in strength to the persecutor, and overcome by a Dostoevsky like conversion, judges them and his anger or pity will determine his course. Which it is explores the vicissitudes of tyrannical power and the blind brutality of fate. An intercessor may intercede on behalf of the protagonist’s friends. In the end, the power turns out to be the persecutor.

The protagonist is driven insane by finding that unwittingly he had taken as a mistress, as in Ghosts, a daughter, or any such case in which the error was revealed but too late. It broadens into any crime involuntarily committed on someone loved and then revealed, when the committer’ state of mind is that of madness. Today the sex of the lover might not be what it seemed! Too many characters introduced too quickly confuse the audience. Explain what they do, and who they are. Decide how they use each other. Decide who you need to take part in each phase.

Plots are infinitely variable through character, situation, psychology, combination, ties of friendship or kinship, the degree of consciousness or free will of their acts, and knowledge of the end towards which they were moving and lots more variables.

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