Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Man Against Plan

I've heard of the basic narratives in writing, things like Man vs Man, Man vs Nature and so on. While reading this charming little review of Heinlein's 'Space Cadet' I came across a wonderfully different set of narrative suggestions:

Man vs Man: people working against each other
Man vs Plan: story where people are working against a scheme of some sort
Man vs Canal: a story where technology is used to overcome obstacles
Man vs Panama: which the author concedes is a very small segment of stories

I love it!

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