Hundreds of powerful stories from diverse cultures and eras. Tales of journeys, love, deception, transformation, survival, or escape com-passionately retold and explored. Dozens of time tested winning storytelling techniques, tips and timeless wisdom shared with the readers of Fictional Worlds by means of great workings of writers, filmmakers, and media artists. 

Well known but elusive story formulas and fictional world-building explained: the Hero's Journey, the dramatic arc, symbolic dragons, mystery, crime fiction and film noir. New creative ideas and methods proposed: "unlikely bonds," "Do’s and Don’ts of the formulaic plot of the adventure story," a witty comic-erotic duel of a screwball comedy, "the Grey Wolf Effect," "The Munchausen Effect," the “golden rule of the three Cs," pathos and reverse pathos, tragic missteps, "Gods" at the crossroads, the return of myth to storytelling on screen, upside-down worlds and horror-farce, the Bladerunner, and how to elevate the extraordinary, yet seemingly ordinary, protagonists – people like us. 

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