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Posted by: Warren, May 22nd, 2019, 7:54pm
In a moment of absolute writer's block I looked up dramatic life events to give me some kind of inspiration and I stumbled across this --

"The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations is a descriptive list which was created by Georges Polti to categorize every dramatic situation that might occur in a story or performance."

I imagine there are be more than 36 and I'm probably just late to this information, but I thought it was a great list and it definitely managed to get the creative juices flowing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirty-Six_Dramatic_Situations

Sounds like a pretty good script title as well, I call dibs  :P

Posted by: DustinBowcot (Guest), May 23rd, 2019, 2:29am; Reply: 1
I haven't looked at this as I already have plenty of creative juice. However, it might come in handy in the future. Thanks for sharing and wanting to help out. Very decent of you.
Posted by: FrankM, May 23rd, 2019, 9:11am; Reply: 2
Thanks for pointing out this neat resource.


Quoted from Warren
I imagine there are be more than 36


Yes, I don’t see “Hyperdrive fails” or “Monster mistaken for dead” on the list  ;D
Posted by: eldave1, May 23rd, 2019, 10:15am; Reply: 3
Thanks for sharing the link - twas interesting

Posted by: LC, May 31st, 2019, 8:33pm; Reply: 4
Was going to merge threads but decided just to add these complimentary links as this theme/the 36, the 5, etc., comes up every now and again:

From The Screenwriting Palette (Sticky) Thanks to George W.
http://www.simplyscripts.net/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?b-screenwrite/m-1132968707

Story Beats Myth Template Heroes Journey
https://www.simplyscripts.net/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?m-1249291806/s-5/highlight-Thirty-six+dramatic+situations/#num5

Five key turning points
https://www.storymastery.com/story/screenplay-structure-five-key-turning-points-successful-scripts/

Structure a successful story
http://www.kalbashir.com/

Thanks for the refresher, Warren. Good tips perhaps for the Tournament coming up too.  8)

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