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1 On Webwork Harry Stephen Keeler
2 On Webwork Harry Stephen Keeler With Contributions By Willard E. Hawkins, Arthur S. Hoffman, Jack Woodford, Oscar J. Friend, and Warren Hastings Miller The Harry Stephen Keeler Society Cincinnati 1997
3 On Webwork Introduction, by Richard Polt... 1 Web-Work Plot Structure, by Willard E. Hawkins with Harry Stephen Keeler (The Student-Writer, June-August, 1917)... 4 Original announcement for Web-Work Plot Structure (May 1917)...22 Readers comments on Web-Work Plot Structure (September 1917)...23 From Fundamentals of Fiction Writing, by Arthur Sullivant Hoffman (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1922)...24 Title page and dedication for The Mechanics (And Kinematics) of Web-Work Plot Construction (Chicago: Analytic Press, 1955)...28 Cover of The Author and Journalist, April The Mechanics (And Kinematics) of Web-Work Plot Construction, by Harry Stephen Keeler (The Author and Journalist, April-November, 1928)...31 Editorials from The Author and Journalist, March 1928, April 1928, and November Making the Subconscious Say Uncle, by Jack Woodford (June 1928)...74 Editorial comments on Jack Woodford (June 1928 and July 1929)...77 How About a Compromise?, by Oscar J. Friend (September 1928)...78 Web-Work When Stuck, by Warren Hastings Miller (December 1928)...80 Caricature of Harry Stephen Keeler and Willard E. Hawkins, by Perelman (10 Story Book, November, 1928)...84
4 1 Introduction HARRY STEPHEN KEELER ( ) is one of America s most original novelists. In a half-century of writing he produced nearly a hundred tales, altogether idiosyncratic in their style, structure, and themes. Most of them can be called mysteries, but they violate every conventional rule of detective fiction. They really belong to a genre unto itself, which is best named by a term Keeler invented: webwork. In a webwork plot, a large cast of characters is entangled in a scheme of vast complexity, linked together by coincidences and secret identities. The surprise ending of the story allows the reader to weave the threads together into a pattern. A Keeler plot is the literary equivalent of a Rube Goldberg invention: intricately constructed, absolutely logical, yet absurd. There is an explanation for everything but the explanations are often so strange that the overall effect is one of extreme artificiality and implausibility. Keeler s goal was not to imitate reality, but to play with the infinite ways in which we interpret and reinterpret sequences of events. Our earliest glimpse of Keeler s techniques comes from Web-Work Plot Structure, published in The Student-Writer of Denver in When The Student-Writer was founded, in 1916, it was little more than a pamphlet advertising Willard E. Hawkins workshop, which provided writing courses, editing, and typing services. But the little magazine soon grew into a lively forum where successful writers exchanged thoughts and news. Beginning in December, 1921, the publication adopted the more august name The Author and Journalist. (Aside from The Author and Journalist, Hawkins greatest success was to be Castaways of Plenty: A Parable of Our Times [1934], a denunciation of technocratic capitalism.) Web-Work Plot Structure attracted great interest, and no doubt helped to make the young magazine a success. The series was written by Hawkins, with extensive interpolations by Keeler. Presumably the entire series is some sort of collaboration, but it is impossible to know how much Keeler contributed beyond the passages which are quoted directly from him. After some preliminary remarks on simple plots, the series presents a diagram and analysis of Keeler s serial The Crilly Court Mystery. (This serial was eventually published in hardcover, with revisions and additions, in 1933; the book was known as The Crilly Court Mystery in Britain and The Face of the Man from Saturn in the U.S.) This diagram is used as a constant point of reference in the intriguing analyses which follow, including the Keeler law (p. 12) a recipe for beginning to weave a webwork plot. The diagram has been printed on page 10, which
5 2 folds out for readers convenience (it was originally printed on two facing pages of The Student-Writer). I have attempted to restore the central part of the diagram, which is invisible on the microfilm from which the diagram is reproduced. The words in this central section are my educated guesses. Most readers seem to have been fascinated by the series on webwork. An exception was Arthur Sullivant Hoffman, who disparaged the Keeler law in his 1922 Fundamentals of Fiction Writing. The relevant passage from Hoffman s book is included here on pages Keeler s rebuke to Hoffman can be found on page 60. I thank Eric Thorsen for providing the pages from Hoffman. Web-Work Plot Structure served as the model for Keeler s most extensive treatise on plot theory: The Mechanics (And Kinematics) of Web-Work Plot Construction, serialized in The Author and Journalistin The mechanics aspect of this series deals with the forces that keep a plot moving. These include motiving (the traits that dispose a character to act in a certain way) and motivating (the circumstances that actually provoke a character to act). The kinematics concerns the many ways in which plot strands can affect and deviate each other once they have been set in motion by mechanics. Here, Keeler distinguishes fifteen elemental plot combinations, diagramming and illustrating each one. Mechanics devotes much more attention to the building blocks of plot than the 1917 series did. It may well be that this painstaking analysis made Keeler s readers lose their patience, for this series was not as well received as the first. Along the lines of the earlier analysis of The Crilly Court Mystery, Keeler diagrams his novel The Voice of the Seven Sparrows. This diagram has been printed on page 62, which folds out. I have restored the central part of the diagram, which is obscured by the binding in the available original copies of Mechanics. Keeler s series concludes with an important discussion of his actual process of plot composition. Unfortunately, we are told that it has been very much condensed for serial publication. Keeler evidently received a number of complimentary copies of these issues of The Author and Journalist, for in 1955, he had the original magazine sheets rebound into a limited-edition book, complete with a new title page and a dedication page. Some copies were sold to collectors; Keeler donated others to his alma mater, the Illinois Institute of Technology (formerly the Armour Institute of Technology), and to the Crerar science library at the University of Chicago, where he did much research for his novels. The three editorials on Mechanics (by Willard E. Hawkins) document the generally hostile reception that readers gave Keeler s articles. Throughout the series, readers were invited to write in with questions, which Keeler would answer at the end. This question-and-answer session never appeared. Perhaps no questions were fit to print. However, three other authors published articles related to Keeler s theory during 1928.
6 3 In 1928, Jack Woodford (pseudonym of Josiah Pitts Woolfolk, ) was a prolific short-story writer and a frequent contributor to 10 Story Book a magazine for iconoclasts featuring short fiction, humor, and spicy photos of girls, which was edited by Keeler from 1919 to Woodford s Making the Subconscious Say Uncle presents a theory of writing that is or seems to be diametrically opposed to Keeler s. Woodford went on to pen a popular series of sophisticated erotic novels with titles such as Tainted, Illicit, Unmoral, and Frenzy. He also published several books on the writer s art, including Why Write A Novel and Plotting for Every Kind of Writing. His autobiography appeared in In How About a Compromise? Oscar J. Friend ( ) tries to find a middle ground between Woodford and Keeler. Friend wrote Western fiction and (under the pen name Owen Fox Jerome) detective novels. In his later years he turned to science fiction, writing such titles as The Kid from Mars and Star Men. Warren Hastings Miller ( ) was a regular contributor to The Author and Journalist, a former editor of Field and Stream, and the author of several books of fiction and nonfiction about adventure in the great outdoors. In Web-Work When Stuck, Miller shows that Keeler s plot diagramming system can be put to use in emergencies. Whether we find Keeler s theories useful or misguided, there is no doubt that they make us think about what we look for in literature and how to go about writing. And quite aside from the intellectual stimulation they might provide to literary theorists, Keeler s reflections on writing are thoroughly entertaining. Keeler writes throughout with the idiosyncratic sensibility and offbeat humor that make his voice one of the most distinctive in American fiction. Richard Polt Cincinnati October, 1997
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