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Georges Polti's 36 Dramatic Situations
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Georges Polti was a 19th century French writer described 36 situations that may be found in many stories, based on the list identified by Goethe who said it was originated by Italian Carlo Gozzi (1720-1806). Perhaps some of the themes and examples do betray a bias towards the stories of the day, yet they are still very useful stimuli and provide interesting examples of enduring and real human dilemmas.
Here are his 36 situation, including a discussion on each one:
Once your work on your novel is under way, one of the toughest foes you'll face in your quest for ultimate success—outside of your lack of talent or limited access to famous or powerful people—is the devilish problem of procrastination.
M. Shaw. ICSE '03: Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering, page 726--736. Washington, DC, USA, IEEE Computer Society, (2003)