Pulp Era Writing Tips Quotes

“AN APPEALING CHARACTER Strives Against GREAT ODDS To Attain A WORTHWHILE GOAL”
― Bryce Beattie, Pulp Era Writing Tips

“To clarify the method of using such an outline we will analyze in detail a true mystery story recently published after being revised to overcome a common difficulty in such writing the difficulty being that as a matter of fact and rather early in the chronology the sheriff knows quite well who committed the crime in question.”
― Bryce Beattie, Pulp Era Writing Tips

“pair of Pier 64 brawlers or two stallions fighting it out to the death.”
― Bryce Beattie, Pulp Era Writing Tips

“Brevity is the life of the short-story,” O. Henry said, and he knew whereof he spoke.”
― Bryce Beattie, Pulp Era Writing Tips

“The very simplicity of this system is well past the experimental stage, having been used by a number of writers with unvarying success since it was first originated by the present writer some years ago, and as it is based on the accepted principles of plot construction and offers a quick and practicable plan for applying those principles to a successful end, I venture to hope that is will prove an inspiration to those writers, beginners as well as “old timers,” who will give it careful study and a thorough test.”
― Bryce Beattie, Pulp Era Writing Tips

“But this series of articles is aimed more particularly at the writer who has less time for reading and study, who writes only when he can snatch an hour or two from between other labors that absorb most of his time, and who has to take what instruction he can get in story writing in broken doses.”
― Bryce Beattie, Pulp Era Writing Tips

“A great many writers, especially beginners, are unable to round out their plots sufficiently to give their stories the proper balance, simply because they are not familiar with the technicalities of plot construction, and the author who attempts to write a story around a poorly formed plot is almost sure to find himself with an unsalable manuscript on his hands.”
― Bryce Beattie, Pulp Era Writing Tips

“believe, with Kipling, that “there are six-and-twenty and ways of constructing tribal lays . . . every single one of them is right!”
― Bryce Beattie, Pulp Era Writing Tips

“One shall be a light-love book, a girl training to be a veterinarian, fighting against the restrictions of her sex in that field. Her goal will be to overcome those man-made restrictions, assert the efficiency of her sex, and attain the happiness she desires. And the other will be a story of Leyte, and the title is already in my mind, the plot in sketchy form, and the title shall be Her Name Was Leyte. Where do you get your ideas? The next time a would-be author asks that question of me I shall not answer.”
― Bryce Beattie, Pulp Era Writing Tips

“In writing any kind of story it is important to remember that in fiction nothing is important except in relation to the people it happens to. Anything can be important if it happens to, or is done by, the right person.”
― Bryce Beattie, Pulp Era Writing Tips