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If a writer does start from real events, what does Sargent (1916) say to keep, change or combine, and how does that compare with other cycle-3 sources by ID?

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1916 practice. Sargent gives no step-by-step method for using a real event. The nearest rules are: use a suggestion as material combined with other ideas, write only parts of true stories and make them so different that even the donors will not recognise them, let development come from within, combine parts of two stories with a new thought, and set the idea aside if the facts allow no happy ending. He says nothing in Ch. XX-XXII about rights, libel or named persons. Compared by ID, C3-B238-S62-03 (Esenwein and Leeds: use only the plot-germ of a news item) and C3-B252-S70-05 (Phillips: rip out most prime facts and add invented detail) also tell the writer to change a real event heavily, by their recorded findings.

1916 practice. Sargent gives no step-by-step method for using a real event. The nearest rules are: use a suggestion as material combined with other ideas, write only parts of true stories and make them so different that even the donors will not recognise them, let development come from within, combine parts of two stories with a new thought, and set the idea aside if the facts allow no happy ending. He says nothing in Ch. XX-XXII about rights, libel or named persons. Compared by ID, C3-B238-S62-03 (Esenwein and Leeds: use only the plot-germ of a news item) and C3-B252-S70-05 (Phillips: rip out most prime facts and add invented detail) also tell the writer to change a real event heavily, by their recorded findings. Curator qualifications: Plot-choice, new-twist and true-story rules verified as Sargent's claims. Market assertions and unsupported numbers (7-29 plots, 0.5-2% acceptable) are flagged as such by the producer. The note that Sargent says nothing on rights or libel in ch. XX-XXII holds. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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  • [sourced_fact] 1916 practice. Sargent gives no step-by-step method for using a real event. The nearest rules are: use a suggestion as material combined with other ideas, write only parts of true stories and make them so different that even the donors will not recognise them, let development come from within, combine parts of two stories with a new thought, and set the idea aside if the facts allow no happy ending. He says nothing in Ch. XX-XXII about rights, libel or named persons. Compared by ID, C3-B238-S62-03 (Esenwein and Leeds: use only the plot-germ of a news item) and C3-B252-S70-05 (Phillips: rip out most prime facts and add invented detail) also tell the writer to change a real event heavily, by their recorded findings. · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) offsets per candidate source

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