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Hamilton on plot (1908): eleven questions to ask of a story you wrote
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A source note on the plot chapter of Clayton Hamilton's 1908 book on fiction, turned into eleven questions for checking your own story: unity of aim, knowing the ending, single or woven strands, the main knot and order of events. It helps writers of scripts and fiction. It is period text, and the questions are untested curator analysis.
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Hamilton on plot (1908): eleven questions to ask of a story you wrote
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A source note on the plot chapter of Clayton Hamilton's 1908 book on fiction, turned into eleven questions for checking your own story: unity of aim, knowing the ending, single or woven strands, the main knot and order of events. It helps writers of scripts and fiction. It is period text, and the questions are untested curator analysis.
Useful starting points
- The chapter treats a plot as strands woven toward a main point of complication, usually about three quarters through.
- It warns that jumping back in time is an error when it hides how events connect.
- The chapter does not state these questions as a checklist; they are a reading of it.
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