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80 HOW TO GET A PLOT lost heiress to a large estate, using his knowledge of family affairs gained as its counsel to post her on seemingly hidden affairs. The de- ception is discovered and the lawyer and his accomplice are put to flight, possibly an automobile chase supplying the sensational climax. If you have a better opinion of lawyers, perhaps he is the one who discovers the imposition and puts the woman and her accomplices to flight. The idea will serve merely to assemble some impossible factors which may be combined into an idea. Like writing to titles, it may seem to be absurd, but some established authors report excellent re- sults. The cards should be of varying colors to prevent their becoming mixed. Any stationer can get card index cards in five or more colors, or perhaps the local printer will cut them from stock on hand without much cost. 30. It is well to study to the point of tliorough understanding all of these schemes for plotting since one may be useful at a time when none of the others will serve to bring a suggestion. It is never wise to have but a single method of obtaining plots. If this one method tem- porarily fails you are helpless. 31. It will generally be found that if plotting is dropped for a time especial effort is required to get back into the habit. On the other hand plotting too long continued, without rest, may bring a state of mental inaction that only rest or a change of work will correct. 32. It wuU be found that there are times when the mind is more plot-active than at others. Plots follow one another in rapid succes- sion, but none of them will work out into complete action at the mo- ment. For this reason it is well to have a plot book. 33. This differs from the idea file already referred to since this is for the storage of plots and not suggestion. For this some form of loose-leaf system is best that the used plots may be removed. This does not mean an investment of several dollars for a book and punched paper. You can use ordinary paper and a paper clip. There is a form of clip that is provided with detachable lever handles that when removed make a neat binding, or there are several forms of spring back binders that do not cost above half a dollar, and which do not require specially punched paper. Elaborate color systems should not be employed as a color for each play classification, as often you can turn your plot from comedy into drama or the reverse. 34. Keep in this file all plots good and bad. Perhaps by combina- tion you can make one good plot from two or more poor ones. It may be that the materials in your story are not harmonious. One story, done by the Edison company, started with a theatrical man in Turkey looking for a harem to use as a comic opera chorus. Some- how it did not seem to w-ork. A life-insurance agent half-plot was taken over and the theatrical man became an insurance agent anxious to offer the Sultan himself wholesale rates if he insured the entire harem. As such the story sold, but the picture was made by a field company w-orking in an old skating rink and the discovery of the skates led to another change. The hero became an agent for roller