>>> Item number 29219 from WRITERS LOG9404E --- (44 records) ----- <<< Date: Sat, 30 Apr 1994 18:35:02 JST Reply-To: WRITERS Sender: WRITERS From: Mike Barker Subject: TECH: Anti-plots Something I have been playing with - Georges Polti lists a bunch of dramatic situations, but they are all negative. Just for fun, I was trying to fill in the positive versions of the situations. E.g., Polti Anti-Polti asking for help offering help rescue from trouble join in celebration? victim of misfortune receiving good fortune disaster good fortune abduction coming home? obtaining giving away hatred love rivalry supporting adultery maintaining relations madness sanity murder saving lives? giving life? self-sacrifice self-fulfillment; expression dark secret hidden abilities love blocked love aided ambition succeeding where you are? revenge repaying good; forgiveness pursuit helping to freedom? revolt support? daring expedition daring success where you are? mystery deeper understanding fatal curiousity curiousity repaid mistaken jealousy correct assistance in love? faulty judgment correct forgiveness? remorse gladness at having done something? recovery/loss of loved one (odd - why'd he list both sides for this one?) seems to me that the "good" situations offer as much dramatic potential as the negative ones - and are often overlooked in the rush to tragic intensity... tink