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Dr Acula.monsterkidclass...	Edgar Wallace's Plot Wheel	Lead	[-]
Posts: 32 (07/08/09 14:21:00) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None Does such an invention actually exist?? From a Stephen King interview: Question: Do you ever use any of these new software for making up characters or plots? Do you think these story writing softwares take away from the imaginative process? Stephen King: Nah. Plot software is just a high-tech version of Edgar Wallace's plot-wheel, invented in the '20s. I use what comes out of my head, or what I see happening around me. http://www.horrorking.com/interview10.html "I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I cannot transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls." - Anaïs Nin
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Posts: 2002 (07/08/09 21:09:50) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Dr Acula wrote: Does such an invention actually exist?? From a Stephen King interview: Question: Do you ever use any of these new software for making up characters or plots? Do you think these story writing softwares take away from the imaginative process? Stephen King: Nah. Plot software is just a high-tech version of Edgar Wallace's plot-wheel, invented in the '20s. I use what comes out of my head, or what I see happening around me. http://www.horrorking.com/interview10.html i forget which one it is, but one of the Wallace books i have has a foreward that discusses Wallace's writing and mentions the wheel. i think it was something about every 20 pages he would use it for a certain device-a murder, a red herring, etc. he also, apparently, never typed anything, but would dictate to assistants
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Posts: 50 (07/10/09 05:50:51) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	frankie marino wrote: i forget which one it is, but one of the Wallace books i have has a foreward that discusses Wallace's writing and mentions the wheel. i think it was something about every 20 pages he would use it for a certain device-a murder, a red herring, etc. he also, apparently, never typed anything, but would dictate to assistants Interesting! This is the first confirmation of the existence of the plot wheel outside that King quote... Just for fun: the official Edgar Wallace Web Presence And how weird: I just found a plot wheel for Earl Stanley Gardner! "I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I cannot transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls." - Anaïs Nin

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