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All possible plots by major authors (2020)

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181 points ohjeez | 2 comments | 15 Oct 24 19:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.52s | source
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tzs ◴[15 Oct 24 22:44 UTC] No.41853892[source]▶
Jack Woodford, a decent pulp writer in the first half of the 20th century who also wrote several books on writing and on how the publishing industry works, including "Trial and Error" in 1933 which Robert Heinlein and Ray Bradbury both cited as a major influence in getting their writing careers started, had a nice description of how to plot:

> Boy meets girl; girl gets boy into pickle; boy gets pickle into girl

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wslh ◴[16 Oct 24 02:21 UTC] No.41855017[source]▶
Weird than "Trial and Error" is not available in Gutenberg.
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autoexec ◴[16 Oct 24 23:49 UTC] No.41865055[source]▶
It's likely still under copyright. It hasn't even been a century since the author's death.
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1. wslh ◴[17 Oct 24 17:06 UTC] No.41871485[source]▶
I wonder why this work by the same author is available for free [1].

[1] https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74145

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2. autoexec ◴[19 Oct 24 02:29 UTC] No.41885195[source]▶
It's an earlier work. I see that the release date of the free book was just this year. If Radio Razz entered the public domain this year then it's possible that Trial and Error will be on that site within the next decade.