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From Chapter 1, Why Plot?


“There is only one reason for plotting a short story, play, novel, or radio program: Let’s face it. We plot them because the general public demands that we do so.”


TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Why Plot?

  • Conception—Basic Plot Situations

  • Psychosis in Plot

  • The A B C of Plotting

  • Crisis in Plot – Bearing Down Pains

  • Not Plot – Plotting versus Incident

  • The Head Man in Plot

  • Formulae Formula in Plot

  • Plot and the Dual Writing Mind

  • Personal Prejudice in Plot

  • She in Plot

  • Individuality in Plot

  • Atmospheric Plots

  • Theme in Plot – A Bow to Authority

  • Plotting – With Feeling

  • Plot Material Sources

  • Plots from Characters

  • Plotting for Climaxes

  • Plotting With Mirrors – Building Backwards

  • Plotting for Reaction

  • Psychoanalysis in Plot

  • The Perfect Plot

  • The Chinese Method in Plotting

  • Plot with a Floy, Floy

  • Plotting the Novel – Bearing Quintuplets – First Stage

  • Plotting the Novel – Bearing Quintuplets – Second Stage

  • Plotting for the Motion Pictures

  • Plotting for Fun – Comedy in Plot

  • Plot for Newspaper Men

  • A Word to Master Craftsmen

  • Denouement


  • Appendix A – The Motion Picture Synopsis

  • Appendix B – The Motion Picture Treatment

  • Appendix C – The Complete Motion Picture Story



BOOK DEDICATION


To Louella, who is, seven years later, and seven years older, seven times as worthy of the original dedication to “Trial and Error.”