| Show IS SECRET f HE SUCCESS Gifted I Young Authoress Does Not Depend on Flashlights in Her Work SHE MAPS EVERYTHING OUT OUTI ol II Worl I 10 To ro VIIU lIb Her House Household hold Dulles S cial Correspondence 71 think tho thoI th tha O Il I author a of ot The Tho LP ought to bo on an American For tom Is ft 1 watchword of ot Cecil Thurstons ono oun life Hers H Is Hnot might even my ay I of ot h r not nol tho Iho n literary and ami which seizes authors drives them breathlessly through reams rams of 0 t paper until tho end of their tale tule U 15 readIed reached Bather IB III tho th method mol hod of ot this joung youn writer to bo compared d dIJ to IJ that of oC o a skilled all who that conceives his hl then lays tho foun loI for Cur each part of tho tho exact which will make U It most mOAt useful to tho whole and finally building on this careful foundation and an exterior that appeals to tn tho f e Youthful In fi Cat t authors of ot any cUtis da s who arc aro anxious to attain 11 II career would do WL to tn by b Mis tons eX In conducting her h r liter lIH When I raw EaI her tho other uthel day Ila In homo In l Aho Just nl a mornings work mid perhaps a lilt bit tired her hel blow U 4 hoi mind I Kho as looking Cm ward keenly to 10 the tho Afternoon ami 1 n It semis to ino f fOI te thought anil iu hI laken with books bool I JuH ni ml mh ns with Hinting Mrs Thur ton An II IIer er t upends weeks nue even months h making sketches and andt t wiring tho Iho lr to II pint a successful I 1 think It Iti ItIs i Is dug dUe to tho public pUblio that tho author hf Just as painstaking In pre his hla books ouM you caro to let mo tell your American leaders Just how you ou set setto setto to work to 10 build tho super i It f jour our I nuked For In what was 1 tho Mole book o ot The Tha It Is not insy aIlY to how tho plan took look You Yuu Il icen IPen of ot our London fogs fogH I Ir WM n ono of ot them that suggested to tono no the thought of ot how It would w hA to mistake ml tak tha tho personality of ot a min man In such Stich a surrounding When oneo the primary Idea tho center von might siy ny of ot the story has to me lIe It often lies In my mind for Cor weeks and months dore a IL word wurl li h written It glows and develop characters imd Incidents aro aroa a and tho balance of ot things U Is ad i lusted II li Is work id out before b tho paper Is touched FOI DATION FIRST FIRSTI I Inter that you OU build your lion tion then Ihen your just as an nn does before lio ho begins tho actual work worl on tho super 1 That Is Just U It said Mrs Is Thurs I lon ion the la Is all 1111 complete completo and the whole la Is In my mind nl al niM nl t to 10 the tho detail I tart to I ut at all You lou see she I have ro fO many social SOria I and other engagements I 1 1 I never get gt at nil all but I hani hi u It ul nil In n mind I begin I j am ready to so go on with Ih the tho the opportunity otters offers with out causing any break In UH It II Iy It Is not to bo IJO from Mrs way of ot doing wings he is in tho IIII h lest un tho system that she mixes In u ue c nt enables cnn bles her to tn r home life liCe almost Intact I 1 do not lIot bellevo In letting the work interfere Mth tho duties which evel roman owes Oes to her home paid sho tie J I tart start early eVer and keen fi U m work rk until noon ana that In fin the tho ff tor or tho clay tillY tho Iho rest the time belons to my aid Mrs IH III now no In III n new novel In I not MI urca et t to ty say Just what Its II 15 10 bo silo sho has hns already llly tho out the book In n rI But Dut I will toll t 1 you t h I m to work out In lt It ot n 1111 I to e rate m In The r the tho rl III oC h a the of ot tho In ad It will not nt bo be 1 clely h ell ellI I do you expect lo to lofy It nn Ing I to In fy I nm just wIlle It out Ut now nn 1 U It WU bo t I II 1111 Pr or lof I 10 hl u It tu the Public N WI oC 7 The M 11 1 Tho bre must ey OU not I Y 0 10 uC the Il most r T the oddly o e H lP ed In III IIII I Iel tat 11 In nil I CI I lilt m W n grent man r al the hook Cl aK It l dill nl HH hlo nu cv een n taken to iki deal to ta k for Cor n IB w Ich of tho KM tir t mir ho nally y himself Ih have 1 donl critics snI that U It Id n no K to all olle only have hav caused sut tor Jj H m to have r toll nw owed l an In I t T lIay ny m my r I H Am l I I In thU re reL reo L I i c II s S i V fi rf r i rL C v Vr ni AM w he to that list or of distinguished authors who find the fascination of ot riling not n t to bo resisted ABOUT WORK WOnt In answer to tu my m question whether she had ever thought of ot doing dramatic sho replied quickly Yes long Ion before tile tho Idea lilea ever eer to mo of ot writing books When I was a small KIll girl of oC 10 I to tu compose little pla 11 of oC my own and act them thun out with my I havo never nOer had the courage to attempt liny work of oC thU kind it seems to mo 1110 to be something that IP Ie quires much thought and not a I little study and experience Do jou think here IB III any ony possibility ity ty of any nil ut jour our own books I t a 1 I would ouM like to do so I Iam Iam am conscious can that they thoy would need a grent deal of oC cutting an 1 trimming an 1111 I while t would not nn objection to another tilling doing It I do In not n t feel I do lit It successfully How lIo I may jet et try of or that kind hut but not until 1 I have J the tho work that I nm engaged upon see I do not Ilot believe In 1 to do more than one thing nt at once I have hll 0 stopped writing short m CA JIM Ir Tin unions literary In Inmany Inman many man ha been a remarkable one rutH live 11 years ago oho had thought of ut doing any ony wIng You Yuu see thu he In Ireland where I was waH living an a a II girl It in III cry vety different from In hI London There It Is IR not Usual U for tor women who Interacted In social matters to tu do regular worl of ot any kind U t in not till I been me acquainted with Ir who has hall always been interested In III that till the thought ht II Ill t oc occurred occurred to me after coming to London four COllI and u II half ago ao I wrote a II and It was almost Immediately accepted for COl publication cation After ACler that I a tow few more stories and then I wall advised by an editor friend to 10 undertake my first t book Tho Circle My y second was Tho or ur John Jhn M MI I I 1 and the third The rhe Gambler Just no nOI v appearing In her literary work Mis Thurston enjoys the sympathy lImp thy of her husband i Temple Thurston himself an of ot proved ability It was ho who dram dramatized Tho and the tho success of hiM firt t novel noel The Apple of ot otI I has bas Induced him to undertake a second now practically completed It ItIs Is III said by critics who read the tho manuscript to be of oC unusual power powerS S MASSIE J I I |
