Re: How many plots are there? (Re: Public whine)


"David Friedman" <ddfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <1358mjolej2fsd0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Patricia C. Wrede" <pwrede6492@xxxxxxx> wrote:


Any suggestions from other people here on anything else worth saying,
aside from quoting Heinlein? The one thing that occurs to me so far is
that both _Harald_ and _Salamander_ embody more than one of Heinlein's
three basic plots--in each case as central elements.

As I've heard it described, Heinlein talked about 4. Gaget stories and Human
interest stories. The Human interest stories are the three everybody
mentions.
Does anybody write gaget stories anymore?


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Pat Lundrigan
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