Books by William Wallace Cook

How to Write A Novel Every WeekThe trick is in coming up with enough plots.A wildly prolific, early 20th century pulp writer, William Wallace Cook was a writing machine. At times he did indeed regularly turn out a full novel every week, for weeks at a time.While he set the bar for pulp fiction, he was also passionate about the process of writing itself. Keeping notes on index cards, he was able to distill the process of plotting down to a simple, but thorough manual, Plotto.Alfred Hitchcock was an early student, so was Earl Stanley Gardner. Robert Silverberg also gave a great review of the book.When Cook published Plotto in finished form in the late 1920's, he recieved feedback from readers who still could not work out how to use his massive book from the instructions in the front of it.In 1934, he came out with a seven-part lesson series that simplified the learning curve. These are included in the Appendix. Learn to produce fascinating plots quickly.Get Your Copy Now.

How to Write A Novel Each WeekThe trick is in coming up with enough plots.A wildly prolific, early 20th century pulp writer, William Wallace Cook was a writing machine. While he set the bar for pulp fiction, he was also passionate about the process of writing itself. Keeping notes on index cards, he was able to distill the process of plotting down to a simple, but thorough manual.Alfred Hitchcock was an early student, so was Earl Stanley Gardner. Robert Silverberg also gave a great review of the book. When Cook published Plotto in finished from, he received feedback from readers who still could not work out how to use his massive book from the instructions in the front of it.In 1934, he came out with a seven-part lesson series that simplified the learning curve. This edition includes the Plotto Chart of Masterplots With Interchangeable Clauses for quick reference.If you have (or want to get) Plotto, this book is a key learning manual for any author. Get Your Copy Today.

William Wallace Cook was a famously prolific writer, turning out so much pulp fiction that he was called "the man who deforested Canada."Best remembered today for his plot-generation book, Plotto, Cook also chronicled his first two decades as a high-volume pulp writer, The Fiction Factory. He tells how he got started as a fiction writer and the ups and downs of freelancing at the turn of the last century.In addition to being fascinating reading in its own right, the book shows how much harder writing used to be. Cook was not only an early adopter of the typewriter, gratefully abandoning his fountain pen, but also of the index-card-based filing system, which made his precious collection of background material (newspaper and magazine clippings) far more accessible.There's no better chronicle of an author writing quickly and with increasing ease, year after year.