Readers of a certain class are apt to call good the plot of that story in which "you can't tell what is going to happen next." But in some of the most tedious novels ever written you can't tell what is going to happen next — and you don't care a fig what is going to happen next.


The Author's Craft (1914)


Readers of a certain class are apt to call good the plot of that story in which you can't tell what is going to happen next. But in some of the most...

Readers of a certain class are apt to call good the plot of that story in which you can't tell what is going to happen next. But in some of the most...

Readers of a certain class are apt to call good the plot of that story in which you can't tell what is going to happen next. But in some of the most...

Readers of a certain class are apt to call good the plot of that story in which you can't tell what is going to happen next. But in some of the most...