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	36 (number) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		36 is the largest numeric base that some computer systems support because it exhausts the numerals, 0–9, and the letters, A–Z. The truncated cube and the truncated octahedron are Archimedean solids with 36 edges.
		36 Hours that changed everything was the name of a series of romance novels released by Silhouette in 1997-98 concerning the troubles faced by different residents of Grand Springs, Colorado during a 36-hour flout.
		In Stargate: Atlantis the stargates of the Pegasus galaxy have 36 symbols.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/36_(number) (1824 words)

	The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations is a descriptive list which was created by Georges Polti to categorize every dramatic situation which might occur in a story or performance.
		He later said that the number 36 was not special, that other longer or shorter lists could also be made.
		Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations was also a book by Polti with extended explanations, examples, and variations on the list of such situations that he created.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Thirty-Six_Dramatic_Situations (385 words)

	The Pulp Companion: Georges Polti's "36 Dramatic Situations"
		A French theater critic, he had heard that only 36 dramatic situations were possible upon the stage, and he set out to confirm it.
		From delighted writers, on the one hand, who had the full range of dramatic material placed at their fingertips; to outraged critics, on the other, who resented creative ideas being counted and fenced like a herd of cattle.
		But The 36 Dramatic Situations was the original, and it remains the standard to which all the others aspire.
	thepulp.net /PulpCompanion/03summer/polti.html (330 words)

	Verbal From Locksmith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Even in situations nowhere near that desperate, people (Oahu Beaches) who didn't start (Biking Europe) out poor all too often end up poor or (Camel Races) with bad credit or both because (Perth) they trusted the wrong person and got screwed.
		Others say the dramatic increase in incidence may be due to increased recognition and an (Racing Car) expansion of the definition of the disorder.
		My experience with these situations is limited, and the maniacs (86) usually clean my clock Despite my personal inability to pound these puppies, either it's possible to regularly beat (36) them (allowing for a large standard deviation), or they are playing correctly and understand the game better than we realize.
	verbalfromlocksmith.blogspot.com (3841 words)

	Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations
		Some of the dramatic situations seem to be stretched a bit thin where several of them have similar parts but in sleightly different context.For example: Twentieth Situation: Self-Sacrifice for an Ideal, Twenty First Situation: Self-Sacrifice for Kindred.
		If someone proposed that there are only 36 plots (someone who the author holds in high recard) I would be tempted to say that with such a number as 36 - divisible by 1, 2, 3, 4 and all higher multiples thereof, that really what he meant was variations on a handful of plots.
		I think analyzing Star Wars from the point of view of The 36 Dramatic Situations is like analyzing soup from the point of view of it's ingredients: "I noticed Celery, and Potatoes, and..." without getting a feel for the arc of the story, or that the soup is a Stew.
	www.homehealthcareinfo.com /books/isbn0766133206.html (1292 words)

	The Scriptwriters Network
		Dramatic action to Jeff means creating subjective excitement -- putting the audience in a state of action.
		Kitchen presented a list of 36 elements with which to create drama, explaining that each is to be taken as much metaphorically as literally.
		The audience is left hanging in an unresolved state, enabling the writer to gauge the dramatic power of the conflict that has been set up and touched off.
	www.scriptwritersnetwork.org /previous/previous_05_2003_1.asp (1266 words)

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		Subject: TECH: The 36 Dramatic Situations (Book Notes) One of the books that is often referred to when discussing "how many plots are there" is one by Georges Polti.
		The thirty-six dramatic situations Georges Polti (1868-) (translated by Lucille Ray) Copyright 1977 (original copyright 1921) The Writer, Inc. Boston "...for there were indeed, as he [Gozzi] had indicated, thirty-six categories which I had to formulate in order to distribute fitly among them the innumerable dramas awaiting classification.
		However, he seems to take care not to say that these dramatic situations are "plots" - indeed, at several points he talks about the uncountable numbers of plots that can be built using these situations.
	web.mit.edu /mbarker/www/writers/t025518.txt (595 words)

	basic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The moment of an epiphany is less an intellectual experience and more of a felt moment that change has begun and it is irrevocable.
		One suggestion during the revision stage is to look for images that are repeated and the actions that they may represent.
		You may then strengthen these images to fully dramatize the meaning you wish to reader to glean from the story.
	olc.spsd.sk.ca /de/cw20web/plot/plot2.htm (344 words)

	Development Heaven with Jeffrey Kitchen
		Separate the Necessary from the Unnecessary; isolate the central Dramatic Question; direct the audience sympathy; structure conflict to continuously keep the ever-demanding audience on the edge of their seat.
		Trap the protagonist in a good strong Dilemma, in which neither choice is acceptable and you've cornered a wild animal, creating a dynamic tension.
		Like a bomb maker's kit, the 36 Dramatic Situations is a fantastic free association tool with which to explode a story into unexpected wild dimensions.
	developmentheaven.com /?sec=developmenttools (439 words)

	Museums and the Web 2004 : Papers : Scali & Howard, XML Coding of Dramatic Structure
		Associating plots to stereotyped dramatic structures is very similar to the well known and useful Patterns approach to sharing software design, originated by the work of architect Christopher Alexander in the late 1970s.
		With an agreed standard, dramatic structures can be shared around the world, giving the possibility of comparing the way Mongolian shamans tell stories and the way Homer told his.
		The use of the schema is not limited to what we think of as dramatic narratives, although this includes a vast range of cultural objects from epic poetry, plays, and operas to novels, musicals and films.
	www.archimuse.com /mw2004/papers/scali/scali.html (3331 words)

	Forensics & Faith: The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations--Part 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		One situation can lead logically to another, or the character faces more than one at a time, or one character faces certain situations while another character faces others, etc. The possibilities are endless.
		In his conclusion Polti defends himself and his “36 situations” system, saying he hasn’t tried to diminish art or put it in a box (my modern paraphrase of his rather antiquated language).
		This is the situation that leads to the need for supplication in the first place, because Esther’s people are about to be slaughtered, thanks to nasty ol’ Haman.
	forensicsandfaith.blogspot.com /2005/12/thirty-six-dramatic-situations-part-4.html (1110 words)

	Cliches, and why they don't suck
		George Polti put together a rather comprehensive tool of plot analysis titled "36 Dramatic Situations"; it's a framework within which one may place dramatic situations.
		There really are only so many situations into which the protagonist or antagonist, and supporting characters, can be placed.
		A quote from The Grand List of Overused Science Fiction Cliches: "Cliches are not in themselves necessarily bad, but their overuse shows that the writer has forgotten what separates the strong tale from the hollow: 'the human heart in conflict with itself', as Faulkner said.
	www.lyricalmagic.com /cliche.html (1145 words)

	Nine Plots in Casablanca - 36 Dramatic situations! Plots! AskWhy! Publications
		Though women have been starved of creative opportunities over the centuries of patriarchal bullying, they have proved in one important field that they are not creatively inferior to men—in writing.
		Slightly more complex is the idea of three types of dramas: someone struggling with nature, someone struggling with someone else, and someone struggling with their own personality.
		He tried to categorise dramatic situations based on the deadly sins but was obliged to eliminate two from the start, gluttony and sloth, as being hardly the stuff of drama, and nearly had to lose lust.
	www.adelphiasophism.com /goddess/plot/001.html (678 words)

	Comments on 10031 \| Ask MetaFilter
		Wordplayer summarizes the The Thirty-six Dramatic Situations, collected and discussed in 1868 by George Polti.
		Allegedly the number is either 36 or 37, and the book is a "French book published in 1916 as "The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations" by Georges Polti".
		There is certainly no pushing of the 36 dramatic situations idea...which even in itself doesn't equate to 36 plots.
	ask.metafilter.com /mefi/10031 (1274 words)

	Writing Formulas as Guides
		Georges Polti (1868-?), author of The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations, postulates that there are 36, and only 36, dramatic situations upon which all plots are based.
		In the book, Polti goes into detail about the situations, mentioning examples and nuances under each, showing the many facets that a single dramatic situation can take.
		For your perusal, possible dispute, and general information, here then, are the 36 dramatic plots.
	www.delamar.org /gwformulas.htm (644 words)

	MonkeyFilter \| Creating Dramatic Situations
		For a thoroughly unreliable approach to this problem, consider Souriau's 200 000 dramatic situations.
		I suspect if one wants to trace the "36 dramatic situations," one might investigate the writings passed down to us under the names of Plato and Aristotle.
		I don't remember if there were other situations, but I remeber the idea that the instigation in a whole bunch of stories can be summarised as "someone new comes to town" or "someone leaves".
	monkeyfilter.com /link.php/8672 (481 words)

	36 Dramatic Situations \| macdaraconroy.com
		This is the personal website of MacDara Conroy, a twenty-something journalist, editor and all-round creative type living in Dublin, Ireland.
		You are reading 36 Dramatic Situations, a Microlog entry by MacDara Conroy.
		It is filed under Reading and Writing, and was published in November 2005.
	macdaraconroy.com /micro/2005/11/002397.html (71 words)

	GameDev.net - 36 Dramatic Situations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This is the basic structure of George Polti's 36 Dramatic Situations.
		Whether there are 36 or 20 dramatic situations is relatively immaterial.
		Two to three dozen situations, each with one or more variants should be more than adequate to fire the imagination of the writer.
	www.gamedev.net /reference/articles/article255.asp (2351 words)

	UGO Screenwriter's Voice - Feature Review by Reg Seeton-- Writing a Great Movie: Four Advanced Tools for the Dramatist ...
		Part One of the book focuses on eleven facets of the dramatic learning curve delving into such valuable elements as dilemma, crisis, decision and action, resolution, 36 dramatic situations, the Enneagram, research and brainstorming, the central proposition, and a remarkable three-step process, sequence, proposition, plot.
		Another great aspect of the book, one I've studied in the past, is the proven plot development tool 36 Dramatic Situations, which, as Kitchen explains, is a set of powerful storytelling elements to help writers with plot invention.
		Here is where you'll be asked such relevant things as, "Do we care about the protagonist and his or her dilemma?", "Does your character have to make a crucial decision because of the crisis?", "Is the resolution fixed in finality?"...
	screenwriting.ugo.com /screenwriting/writingagreatmovie_review.php (1633 words)

	The Unknown Screenwriter
		Could any of these dramatic situations be used to create undeserved misfortune for your Protagonist so that we feel both empathy and sympathy for him or her?
		Could any of these dramatic situations be used to give us a glimpse of your Antagonist or one of his or her victims?
		Could one of these dramatic situations be used to create a DILEMMA for your Protagonist.
	www.unknownscreenwriter.com (6141 words)

	CALLIHOO Writing Idea Generators: The 37 Dramatic Situations
		Georges Polti says that all stories boil down to just 36 dramatic situations and takeoffs of those situations.
		If you're stuck for a situation, try this.
		A situation appears below randomly (in bold print).
	www.sff.net /people/julia.west/CALLIHOO/ideagen2.htm (153 words)

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		A stepparent being the lover of both a parent and a child, all of whom are aware of the situation.
		Recovery of a lost one (the Seeker, the One Found) 36.
		Loss of Loved Ones (a Kinsman slain, a Kinsman spectator, an Executioner) A. Witnessing the slaying of a Kinsman, while powerless to prevent it.
	www.personal.utulsa.edu /~marc-carlson/game/plots.txt (2813 words)

	Richard A. Bartle: Interactive Fiction and Computers
		The degree of interactivity in IF ranges from movies where the audience votes on one of two endings to live role-playing games where the participants are given characters to play and placed in a situation of conflict, and each try to steer the outcome to their advantage.
		The gradual escalation of conflict we find dramatic is unnatural, a failure on the parts of both protagonist and antagonist.
		Brenda Laurel, in her 1986 dissertation, proposed the development of a computational theory of drama, possibly based on Aristotle's theory of dramatic structure, which would be a sort of grammar for drama (Laurel, 1986).
	www.mud.co.uk /richard/ifan194.htm (5760 words)

	Schenk & Associates » Blog Archive » The 36 Dramatic Situations: or how to turn your client into Hamlet
		The 36 Dramatic Situations: or how to turn your client into Hamlet
		The importance of “optics” on position becomes so important that positions are put to consultants to evaluate with mock juries, ect.
		One very useful tool that you might take a look at is George Polti’s “The 36 dramatic Situations”.
	schenklaw.ca /?p=61 (370 words)

	February 1999
		He formulated his law of non-identity, also called the law of individuality, which states that no two persons, or situations, or stages of processes are the same in all details.
		For example, the word 'apple' is commonly applied to millions of different objects, to the 'same' object at different times, to scientific events on submicroscopic levels, to objects of everyday experience, to our mental images, to illustrations, and even to the combined letters a-p-p-l-e.
		Now to this declared fact that there are no more than thirty-six dramatic situations, is attached a singular corollary, the discovery that there are in life but thirty-six emotions.
	www.alamut.com /past/9902_feb.html (6084 words)

	basic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Boston: The Writer, 1940) argues that there are only a limited number of dramatic situations found within literature and film.
		Each situation has also a large number of nuances which the writer can play with in order to verify or modify the situations.
		For more details relating to Polti's dramatic situations, click here.
	olc.spsd.sk.ca /de/cw20web/plot/36dramaticsit.htm (427 words)

	Mueller Science - Psychologie: 36 dramatic situations
		D Might constitute a distinct Situation ; there is not only the discovery, but the duty of imposing punishment as well
		With B (1) there are connected, in one respect, the plays classed in A (1) of Situation XXVII.
		Classes A and C of Situation XI move toward the same end.
	www.muellerscience.com /PSYCHOLOGIE/Kompetenz/36dramaticsituations.htm (2812 words)

	Earth & Sky Energies: 36 + 1 Dramatic Situations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Earth & Sky Energies: 36 + 1 Dramatic Situations
		Particularly since in addition to links to all 37 situations..
		Just point your browser to this page, see which situation is featured and write something that fits the situation...
	www.earthskyenergies.net /archives/000135.html (75 words)

	Thicken Plot Soup
		(We won't discuss what that kind of thinking implies about the values of the people espousing it—this time.) The so-called "36 dramatic situations" are not plot.
		They are structures from which the plot hangs, and they can be mixed and matched much more than the proponents of the "limited number of plots" school of thought will admit.
		That is, once the stone ("dramatic situation") is in the pot, what matters is what is added—the context.
	savage.authorslawyer.com /soup.shtml (1019 words)

	RPG Blog: The 36 Plots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		I recently finished re-reading Loren J. Miller's excellent article applying the 36 dramatic situations put forth by Georges Polti to RPG scenarios and plots.
		I've seen several other versions of this out there, but it's certainly a nice look at how to involve other dramatic elements in your games aside from/along with dungeon crawls and treasure hunts.
		For example, my love of Star Wars took a serious hit from years of Lucas screwing with my childhood memories and the advent of Episode III ("Nooooo!"), but my Inner Stormtrooper still loves his Star Wars Deckplans.
	www.rpgblog.org /rpg_blog/2006/04/the_36_plots.html (247 words)

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