Full show notes out on the blog here.

Joining me in the studio today is Dr. Anna Courie, an Army wife, nurse, corporate social responsibility officer, and author of six titles. Anna’s 20+ years in the healthcare field include experience in public and private sector health promotion. Anna is a graduate of Clemson University, the University of Wyoming, and Ohio State University. In her spare time, she consults in public health, facilitates retreats, writes books, and blogs for Living Compass Ministries, Christ Walk, 50 Days of Fabulous, Earth and Altar, and Lent Madness. Anna loves her family, Clemson football, traveling, reading and hiking. Home is wherever the Army (and God) sends her.

Let’s talk about what Anna’s been up to recently. Whether there are any new book ideas on the horizon. How the changes happening in her personal and professional life are sending her to the page to write or keeping her from that creative space. We’ll just riff a bit with Anna cuz she’s my bud and I think a really cool person to hang out with.

We’ve done the 7 Basic Plots before (March 2022) so we’re just going to quick review it and then deep dive on the ones Anna’s most interested in.

So this comes from the book by Christopher Booker which was basically his opus. It was the culmination of his career studying literature, and, honestly, is a pretty comprehensive list. So a couple of caveats:

• It’s a list of basics which means they’re not all encompassing and there are certainly exceptions.
• It’s an attempt to generalize which means they’re open for interpretation.

Here are the 7 Basic Plots:

1. Overcoming the Monster
2. Rags to Riches
3. The Quest
4. Voyage and Return
5. Comedy
6. Tragedy
7. Rebirth

Too general to be useful? Helpful in terms of a general outline for setting (and meeting) expectations?