The Plotto Project

Plotto is a book written in 1928, by William Wallace Cook. Cook, working under an array of pseudonyms, pumped out hundreds of nickel and dime novels over a forty-four year career. In 1910 alone, he wrote fifty-four nickel novels, often doing a full novel in a single twenty-four hour session. Each novel was always built in the same 40,000 word format of sixteen chapters of five single-spaced pages each.

In 2016, Gary Kacmarcik undertook a project to convert the original digitized book into a hypertext document, and did a wonderful job on it. That said, he basically reproduced the original book format, which meant it suffers from a lot of the same clunkiness the book does.

Since I own and use Plotto, I decided it would make an excellent exercise/practice project, as well as kind of being a process overview of updating / creating a website.

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