The Lester Dent Guide to Pulp Fiction
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Of course, that was in the thirties.
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Dent's essay first appeared in Writer's Digest Yearbook back in under the title, "The Pulp Paper Master Fiction Plot".
He has another famous essay called "Wave Those Tags" which appeared in the above periodical in 1940. This essay details his formula to create interesting characters to put in those stories.
His initial essay has been variously reprinted, but I've only found the above paired in Marilyn Cannaday's biography of Dent, "Bigger Than Life: the creator of Doc Savage", published by Bowling Green State University Popular Press, in 1990.
Of course, that was in the thirties.
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doc_mystery:Dent's essay first appeared in Writer's Digest Yearbook back in under the title, "The Pulp Paper Master Fiction Plot".
He has another famous essay called "Wave Those Tags" which appeared in the above periodical in 1940. This essay details his formula to create interesting characters to put in those stories.
His initial essay has been variously reprinted, but I've only found the above paired in Marilyn Cannaday's biography of Dent, "Bigger Than Life: the creator of Doc Savage", published by Bowling Green State University Popular Press, in 1990.
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Date: 2005-05-09 03:17 am (UTC)::B::