How to Write a Novel: A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction
CHAPTER III
HOW TO BEGIN
Formation of the Plot 25
The Agonies and Joys of "Plot-Construction" 28
Care in the Use of Actual Events 31
The Natural History of a Plot 35
Sir Walter Besant on the Evolution of a Plot 40
Plot-Formation in Earnest 43
Characters first: Plot afterwards 45
The Natural Background 47