Show to young author get originality into your work my friend if your forte is writing articles choose a new bright popular topic and treat it freshly dont affect the dull and stupid essay style use few words make your sentences brief be crisp and make your thoughts crackle tell the public something it know and is trying to find out if you lean to fiction tear away from old plots and take an incident that a reader will recognize at once as being fresh make your dialogue natural and bright let your characters move around and have a being stop when your story is told a lively story of 2000 words full of life and snap has in it more prospects of success than a drawn out tale of words if you feel poetry to be your forte appeal to the heart rather than the mind dont fail at blasi verse when you can succeed at popular poetry E W bok in ladies home journal |