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Well, I'm going to NaNo this year. The outline just came to an end.
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Oct. 13th, 2015
Morphology of the Folktale
Oct. 13th, 2015 11:23 pmMorphology of the Folktale by Vladimir Propp
An incredibly academic analysis of fairy tales. If you're not merely interested in fairy tales but also variants and things like that, you are very likely to like it.
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An incredibly academic analysis of fairy tales. If you're not merely interested in fairy tales but also variants and things like that, you are very likely to like it.
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the MacGuffin motive
Oct. 13th, 2015 11:46 pmA MacGuffin is an object in the story that the characters care about -- but the readers don't. We just empathize with the characters' desires about it and let it motivate the story. The marvelous gemstone the Lake of Wine, that the thief Corry wants to steal to avenge his father's murder by the family that owns it. Or the thinly characterized kidnap victim.
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