![]() ![]() Monster (villain is an animal): Moby Dick, Jurassic Park, Jaws.The Even Chance is the movie version of Mr. Labyrinth (power divide created by the labyrinth, though it’s not the villain): The Hunger Games, The Wizard of Oz, Pan’s Labyrinth.You can think of plots as sub-subgenres, but really they are specific types of Action stories we encounter that have similar elements. Within the Action Genre, there are four subgenres, determined by the force of antagonism, and each subgenre includes four “plots,” with their own conventions. Shawn tells us the answer to many of the problems that arise as we plan, draft, and revise our stories can be solved by asking and answering the question, what’s the genre? The global genre is like a utility belt with lots of tools because it’s shorthand for the collection of characteristics readers expect to see in your story, the ones they’ll miss if they aren’t there.
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