Where do story ideas come from according to Esenwein and Leeds (1919), and what do they actually say about turning a plot-germ into a plot?
1919 practice (Esenwein and Leeds, a US photoplay-writing manual, ch. XIV): plot-germs, meaning single incidents or situations, come from watching films of every kind, from reading, hearing and observing life, and especially from short news fillers; finished plots are not found ready-made, so the writer carries a note-book and writes the germ down at once. The chapter gives no stepwise germ-to-plot method; its one development rule is to remodel a news item until its own reporter would not recognise it. For a stepwise order of work, see C3-B189-S43-01 (Phillips 1914).
1919 practice (Esenwein and Leeds, a US photoplay-writing manual, ch. XIV): plot-germs, meaning single incidents or situations, come from watching films of every kind, from reading, hearing and observing life, and especially from short news fillers; finished plots are not found ready-made, so the writer carries a note-book and writes the germ down at once. The chapter gives no stepwise germ-to-plot method; its one development rule is to remodel a news item until its own reporter would not recognise it. For a stepwise order of work, see C3-B189-S43-01 (Phillips 1914).
Curator qualifications: Idea sources and note-book habit; scoped negative (no stepwise germ-to-plot method in ch. XIV) consistent with read.
Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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