The Dennis Wheatley 'Museum' - Dennis Wheatley’s Writing Technique

List of page headings

• Introduction
• List of Exhibition Contents

2. The born storyteller
3. DW the extraordinarily well-read young man
4. Influences
5. People and Places
6. DW's choice of hero and storyline
7. Research
8. An overview of DW's production methodology
9. DW the disciplined writer
10. Planning the entire story in advance
11. Novels with historical backgrounds - extended planning
12. Making people want to turn the page
13. Experimentation
14. Numbers of chapters and word counts
15. The pencil draft
16. The ink draft
17. An experiment with dictation
18. The typescript
19. Hutchinson commission Reader's Reports
20. The proofs
21. Polishing throughout the process
22. In the early days, DW drafted designs for the dust jackets, although his designs were not always used
23. The Finished Article
24. Promoting Sales
25. Reading and filing the reviews
26. DW always replied to his fans
27. Post-sales analyses
28. DW's personal assessments of quality

Item 8 gives an overview of DW's writing process.

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