i need help finding story templates and character templates,

[huxley]

i want to find the kind of pages your english teacher would give you in english class, the story builder (guid,template,diagram,developing)

and the kind of pages that would say :character types .protagonist.antagonist,

i want to find the types of papers they would give you in english class.like character develoment templat,guid

and templates for story structure . like .opening:
build up:
problem:
event:
resolution:
end:

 

[huxley]

i just want to say i'm not looking for a story ,i'm looking for pages that ask you question to help develop ,and organise a story ,

 

[Stewart]

Ask on www.writingforums.com ; you may be more likely to find someone there.

 

[Sitaram]

I did a google.com search on :

story template guide development structure


This product looks utterly fascinating:

http://www.masterfreelancer.com/wsstore/svssb1.html

Here are two other links.

http://www.totallywrite.com/storyview.htm

http://story.exis.net/

As I read this thread, I am curiously reminded of a paperback on my
shelf, by Psychiatrist David Viscott, entitled "The Viscott Method."

The idea behind Viscott's method is simply this:
You read through the book with a tape recorder close at hand. You
are asked to respond to various questions aloud, and record your
response with the tape recorder. These questions are the ones that
Dr. Viscott has asked his patients over the years. At a certain point,
some weeks later, you are instructed to replay the tape, listen to your
responses of some weeks ago, and then comment further upon them.

The Viscott Method is a do-it-yourself program of psychotherapy.

They say each person's life is worthy of a novel.

Suppose there were a set of questions, similar to Viscott's Method,
geared towards producing a novel or story.

Faulkner once said that he, and every writer, are constantly
attempting, over and over, to etch the totality of humanity onto the
head of a pin. I am paraphrasing from memory, so Faulkner may have
expressed it differently. Faulkner explained that all he knows is the
South, and therefore, he is always etching and sketching on the head
of a southern pin.


Is there perhaps some fundamental underlying framework or
structure to all literature, such that we might abstract it, and then
subject our subconscious to such questions or templates, and produce
something new, and yet perennially the same.


I just started reading Umberto Eco's essays on "Literature". Both Eco,
and also Milan Kundera, in his "Art of the Novel", seem to reveal
a great deal of what goes on behind the scenes in an author's mind, as
he creates.


But then, where do dreams come from? Is there a template of dreams?
If we were to keep a log of every dream we remember, would it yield useful material for a novel?