Plotter: Operationalizing the Master Book of All Plots
Markus Eger, Colin Potts, Camille Barot, R. Michael Young · Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment · 2015
Pulp fiction author William Wallace Cook published Plotto: The Master Book of All Plots in 1928, which contains almost 2000 plot fragments and relatively formal instructions on how human authors could combine them to produce plots behind novels. In this paper we show one way that the methods in this book can be used to computationally generate plots from the fragments. We also show sample plots generated by our system called Plotter that uses this method. Finally we use them to discuss idiosyncrasies and limitations of the book.