...people into those incidents with interesting results. So he goes to work. To write a novel ? No—that is a thought which comes later; in the beginning he...case of a magazine sketch which I once ./£started to write—a funny and fantastic sketch about a prince and a pauper; it presently assumed a grave cast...

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...along telling itself, it is more than apt to go on and on and on till it spreads itself into a book And I have noticed another thing: that as the short...apt to get abolished and find itself superseded by quite a different one — Much the same thing happened with "Pudd'nhead Wilson." I had a sufficiently...

...no story. He merely has some people in his mind, and an incident or two, also a locality . . . [I] n the beginning he is only proposing to tell a little...and find itself superseded by a quite different one. Hershel Parker has instructed readers of Pudd'nhead Wilson to ignore what Twain says about its composition...

...read for plot as plot."169 Twain himself explained that his focus often changed as a novel progressed: "As the short tale grows into the long tale, the original...abolished and find itself superseded by a quite different one."170 Twain's difficulties with plots often resulted in substantial discontinuities in the process...