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Six self-check questions for a writer's own short story, arranged from Clayton Hamilton's 1908 chapter on structure: one effect, economy of means, the opening, the ending, planning order and consistent mood. It is a documentary reading of one Project Gutenberg file, not a tested method, and the chapter's rules are not presented as current advice.
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Hamilton on short-story structure: six questions from Chapter XI of Materials and Methods of Fiction (1908)
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Six self-check questions for a writer's own short story, arranged from Clayton Hamilton's 1908 chapter on structure: one effect, economy of means, the opening, the ending, planning order and consistent mood. It is a documentary reading of one Project Gutenberg file, not a tested method, and the chapter's rules are not presented as current advice.
Useful starting points
- State your story's single intended effect in one sentence before judging any scene against it.
- Count characters, events and settings, then mark any that do not serve that effect.
- Mark the sentence where the design is complete and check whether anything after it is needed.
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