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From love and disaster to “a miracle of God,” the 96-year-old manual outlines every known plot
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 is called Ten Million Photoplay Plots, and it organizes dramatic situations “without sub-classifications and classified according to their various natures.” It was one of many books written by Wycliff Aber Hill, a prolific peddler of advice-on-writing books, and apparently, a connoisseur of plot. Hill also wrote Ten Million Photography Plots. And if those 20 million weren’t enough, he also wrote several volumes of The Plot Genie.Hill wasn’t the only person who tried to condense the essence of storytelling down to simple rules. Frederick Palmers created an “encyclopedia” of 36 plot situations in 1922, a Christopher Booker outlined…
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