Plotting (non-fiction)
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| Plotting: How to Have a Brain Child | |
| Author | Jack Woodford |
|---|---|
| Subject(s) | Plots (drama, fiction) |
| Publisher | Carlyle House |
| Publication date | 1939 |
| OCLC | 1488302 |
| Preceded by | Trial and Error |
Plotting is a book by Jack Woodford. Initially published as Plotting - How to Have a Brain Child in 1939, the book was re-issued with the title Plotting in 1948. A sequel of sorts to Woodford’s popular Trial and Error, Plotting details numerous methods of creating plots for short stories, novels, and other works of fiction.
[edit] 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.”
[edit] 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
