{"id":529,"date":"2016-05-02T04:57:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T04:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=529"},"modified":"2025-05-18T20:45:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T03:45:04","slug":"plotto-instruction-book","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/other-books\/plotto-instruction-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Plotto Instruction Booklet"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Master the Plotto System in Seven Lessons<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_531\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-531\" style=\"width: 167px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/plotto_instruction_cover250.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-531\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-531 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/plotto_instruction_cover250.jpg?resize=167%2C250&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Plotto Instruction Booklet by William Wallace Cook. Norton Creek Press\" width=\"167\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookfinder.com\/isbn\/9781938099045\/?st=sr&amp;ac=qr&amp;mode=advanced&amp;author=&amp;title=&amp;isbn=9781938099045&amp;lang=en&amp;new=1&amp;destination=us&amp;currency=USD&amp;binding=SOFT&amp;keywords=&amp;publisher=Norton+Creek+Press&amp;min_year=&amp;max_year=&amp;minprice=&amp;maxprice=40\">Buy Now.<\/a><\/b><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>by William Wallace Cook<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Norton Creek Press. 58 pages.\u00a0 ISBN 1938099044.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/other-books\/plotto\/\">Plotto <\/a>plot suggestion system has a largely undeserved reputation for being hard to use, because the instructions in the book itself are confusing. But we have a fix for that!<\/p>\n<p><em>Plotto&#8217;s<\/em> author, William Wallace Cook, developed a short course in using <em>Plotto<\/em>, and wrote this <em>Plotto Instruction Booklet<\/em> as its text. Once you work through the seven short lessons in this slim 58-page booklet, you have mastered the <em>Plotto<\/em> system and can confidently and efficiently use it to help create plots, subplots, and situations for your short stories, novels, and scripts.<\/p>\n<p>This essential\u00a0<em>Plotto Instruction Booklet<\/em> is compatible with all editions of Plotto:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/other-books\/plotto\/\">Norton Creek Press edition<\/a>\u00a0of Plotto.<\/li>\n<li>The original Ellis Publishing Company edition from 1928-1941.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1THqI9S\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plots Unlimited<\/a> from Ashleywilde.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fans of Plotto should also\u00a0read\u00a0Cook&#8217;s book about his writing career, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/other-books\/the-fiction-factory\/\">The Fiction Factory<\/a>, also published by Norton Creek Press.<\/p>\n<h2>Ordering<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Order the Plotto Instruction Book from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookfinder.com\/isbn\/9781938099045\/?st=sr&amp;ac=qr&amp;mode=advanced&amp;author=&amp;title=&amp;isbn=9781938099045&amp;lang=en&amp;new=1&amp;destination=us&amp;currency=USD&amp;binding=SOFT&amp;keywords=&amp;publisher=Norton+Creek+Press&amp;min_year=&amp;max_year=&amp;minprice=&amp;maxprice=40\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online booksellers<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>See also our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/how-to-order\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to Order<\/a> page.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Master the Plotto System in Seven Lessons by William Wallace Cook Norton Creek Press. 58 pages.\u00a0 ISBN 1938099044. The Plotto plot suggestion system has a largely undeserved reputation for being hard to use, because the instructions in the book itself are confusing. But we have a fix for that! Plotto&#8217;s author, William Wallace Cook, developed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/other-books\/plotto-instruction-book\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Plotto Instruction Booklet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":270,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-plotto","category-writing"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P71zFO-8x","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":34,"url":"https:\/\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/other-books\/plotto\/","url_meta":{"origin":529,"position":0},"title":"Plotto","author":"Robert Plamondon","date":"October 31, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The Classic Plot Suggestion Tool for Writers of Creative Fiction by William Wallace Cook Norton Creek Press, August 2011, 308 pages. 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