Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-05-28 | Page 12 | Timely Topics

I t t I L II I T Timely Topics f I RULES FOR WRITERS In these days das it ft seems that every ambitious young youns man who is not taking a mall mail course of instruction guaranteed guaranteed guaranteed guar guar- to increase his pay 1000 per cent in six weeks is learning by mail to write short stories stones or scenarios In Interest Interest Interest In- In terest in the mechanics of the writing trade therefore there is keen and widespread and in the spirit of comradeship we e call attention of these literary neophytes to a rule that n may n-ay ay prevent many a manuscript from winging its way homeward Ia Ala the United States mail with a neat rejection slip sUp The rule is of especial alue value to persons who write tales ales ales of travel and of adventure ad in far places The idea is that whether one Is writing of the chill wastes of a coral strand in the Antipodes or of a fetid and ridden insect jungle of the tropics always see to it that your jour tale contains a paragraph paragraph paragraph para para- graph reading something like this And there amid these primitive e surroundings I found a worn and much thumbed copy of the insert name of whatever magazine you ou send story to a reminder of the civilized world which here seemed too far away away Try this on your our favorite magazine editor It is what the movie directors call can sure fire Even the most calloused editor will fall for it El El Paso Times Dem