The Complete Plotto - Cook, William Wallace

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Résumé :
How to Write A Novel Every Week The trick is in coming up with enough plots. A wildly prolific, early 20th century pulp writer, William Wallace Cook was a writing machine. At times he did indeed regularly turn out a full novel every week, for weeks at a time. While he set the bar for pulp fiction, he was also passionate about the process of writing itself. Keeping notes on index cards, he was able to distill the process of plotting down to a simple, but thorough manual, Plotto. Alfred Hitchcock was an early student, so was Earl Stanley Gardner. Robert Silverberg also gave a great review of the book. When Cook published Plotto in finished form in the late 1920's, he recieved feedback from readers who still could not work out how to use his massive book from the instructions in the front of it. In 1934, he came out with a seven-part lesson series that simplified the learning curve. These are included in the Appendix. Learn to produce fascinating plots quickly. Get Your Copy Now.

Biographie:
William Wallace Cook was a pulp fiction writer whose output was so prolific that he was called the man who deforested Canada. He was an early adopter of many then-new technologies. He was one of the first writers to compose on a typewriter and to use card files to index an enormous collection of magazine and newspaper clippings.

Plotto is an extension of Cook's passion for efficiency and method in writing.

Norton Creek Press has also published Cook's autobiography, The Fiction Factory, (under the pseudonym of John Milton Edwards), which covers the first half of his writing career in detail.

Born in Michigan 1878, at one point Cook moved to Arizona for his health, and the Old West ambiance he soaked up there allowed him to become a much-sought-after writer of Westerns.

Cook's interest in technology no doubt was the source of his science fiction novels, such as A Round Trip to the Year 2000, written before SF was an established genre.

And this means that it will come as no surprise that Cook wrote screenplays for early silent movies, starting in 1912 with It All Came Out in the Wash.

Cook's most famous work is the Plotto plot-suggestion tool.

Cook died in Kansas of pneumonia in 1935.

Sommaire:
William Wallace Cook (1867-1933) also known by the pen-name John Milton Edwards, was an American journalist and writer of popular fiction. His works include westerns, adventure stories, dime novels, serials and screen and stage plays. He is best remembered for his science-fiction works. Cook also created Plotto, a system for plot suggestion and content structure for fiction writers. As John Milton Edwards, he wrote The Fiction Factory: Being the Experience of a Writer Who, for Twenty-Two Years, has Kept a Story-Mill Grinding Successfully in 1912....