Master Plot Formula
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nanowrimo_ljHas anyone tried this?-- The Lester Dent Pulp Paper Master Fiction Plot
"This is a formula, a master plot, for any 6000 word pulp story. It has worked on adventure, detective, western and war-air. It tells exactly where to put everything. It shows definitely just what must happen in each successive thousand words. No yarn of mine written to the formula has yet failed to sell..." Lester Dent was the author of dozens of books, including the "Doc Savage" series, written under the name Kenneth Robeson.
It's a formula for a 6,000-word story, splitting the story into four parts and detailing what must happen in each part. The formula could easily be expanded to cover a novel-length story. In each part, the formula asks: "Does it have SUSPENSE? Is there a MENACE to the hero? Does everything happen logically?" I've gotten some good ideas from this formula, but I was wondering if anyone doing NaNoWriMo had actually followed it for their story?
"This is a formula, a master plot, for any 6000 word pulp story. It has worked on adventure, detective, western and war-air. It tells exactly where to put everything. It shows definitely just what must happen in each successive thousand words. No yarn of mine written to the formula has yet failed to sell..." Lester Dent was the author of dozens of books, including the "Doc Savage" series, written under the name Kenneth Robeson.
It's a formula for a 6,000-word story, splitting the story into four parts and detailing what must happen in each part. The formula could easily be expanded to cover a novel-length story. In each part, the formula asks: "Does it have SUSPENSE? Is there a MENACE to the hero? Does everything happen logically?" I've gotten some good ideas from this formula, but I was wondering if anyone doing NaNoWriMo had actually followed it for their story?
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