to the posting on whether there are only seven types of story plots I wanted to refer the questioner and author to an informative article from the washinton post article called once upon a time a review by dennis dutton, that I found at:
It’s helpful to put in a link to the original column so that everybody knows what you’re referring to. You seem to be talking about What are the seven basic literary plots?.
Booker’s book appeared five years after the column, so we can give Cecil a pass on not knowing about it. Just this once.
There’s alleged to be another short list; the seven worst mistakes a writer can make. I like to know how many stories are on both lists. 
No, never mind. That’s probably not true.
In “Please Don’t Eat the Daisies”, a play producer states that every plot can be reduced to Cinderella or Goldilocks. I kinda like it.
I think it was Isaac Asimov who said that there are 3 SF plots: “What if?” “If only” and “If this goes on …”
I recently read somewhere that there are two stories:
A man goes on a journey
A stranger comes to town
As stated in the article theres are a lot of divisions of storytelling. It’s not QUITE the same thing but I’m relatively fond of Northrop Frye’s theory of archetypes. They have the different stages (Winter: Irony/Satire, Spring: Comedy, Summer: Romance, Autumn: Tragedy) and then substages and allowance for certain oens ot intersect at points.
Also note we’re talking literary terms not modern pop-terms so
Comedy - Rise of New Society/General "victory
Romance - Heroic tales (think Beowulf).
To put things simply of course. 
Beowulf is hardly a “romance” in the sense that The Winter’s Tale is. (I assume that Harlequin is right out.)
No, it was Robert Heinlein.