This post has been making the rounds of late, but it’s especially interesting to me now as 1) I’m taking a writing class focused on plotting and 2) I read a lot of those Doc Savage pulps in junior high. (Anyone remember the movie with Ron Ely as Doc? Raise your hands.) (I saw it twice.)
See also
- A post on Word Hunter has more background on where these rules came from and other writers’ plotting structures. The Scrivener link is dead.
(originally posted in 2005-05-06, updated for micro.blog)