Show novel writing how it il is done most people imagine thil the llie art of ft n riling bitin 0 is no art at all music requires a special training so does docs painting so does aloes sculpture but i filial lint is 13 wanted for writing especially writing M novels except pen ilk and paper and a I 1 few itlen ideas the public ini imagine aine 0 that it hardly lily any tro trouble tible to ft rile h at I 1 takes rikes so little trouble to tend lead they to ilo not hold ft till Sheri dans in maxim axim blat C hy easy lisitin ft li tings s hard reading lio tat that a story which wily olly takes aalt nit an hour to read inest iliavi 11 evl lost the author nerl cry little trouble indeed 1111 rite people sometimes bay inay anybody car can write there is no 1 great art in ili that we cou could nil 11 illige ft rite if f we 0 up the time to it it must be a very easy work and so a 1 I popular novelist is often greeted with the re mark imbat a pleasant life aou ou inual haic ft riling V those allos e 0 stories of yours I 1 quite cai 1 such n delightful deli A an amusement ti selner t mani deli delightful biffl ment for forsooth forso tooth tile man lis has been in the ag agonies ollies of ollile chion for a ft hole mortal i eak as to mccther lie ft ill make edwin propose for an angelina C clina bv letter or by word of mouth nio ulli and i bether at 0 clinas pap old mr broino ought to enact the 0 part of the stern parent or to relent and cry bless 3 ott on my 1113 children hil no one 0 gives the poor novel writer credit for any ally deep t thought hought in the lie matter people thin k th eliat at his stories ill all cl came tile to him looked over liis his shoulder as hans christian an derben said his did told as for dhosi adventures when tures liis his lucroes arid and heroines undergo undergo by hood flood and fell they acre ft ere reeled off tile hie line liy hy th alic yard in without any execution orm or worry orry on liis his part pirt alas is it so there ire aie certainly some favored individuals ulio ft lio dash winy aft ay at the rato rate of a limit hant anthony tells us lis that he be was up tip every morning at five and turned off tio 00 hundred ind and fi fitly f ty words every quarter of an all hour writing c regularly thice hours a day I 1 at every otio is not nol hin him most loveli noveli novelists ats f ind it a labor sometimes to get gel up till the necessary amount of stel strain ili and lr dr Johr johnsons sons a advice to sit don donn it do doggedly 0 gedly is not I 1 1 I 1 Is ays productive of s satisfactory satisfactory atis factory re rc brills the chapter vill hang fire tile climax finis fails to excite aud tile author is at ills his u wits its cut end how to work it up to 0 o lover fever heat in one of ernys roundabout about I 1 epars lie he mentions Alex alexandrus andrut mode of af action how lie invented invent eil the plau plan of a 1 I new lying iving 0 silent on oil his back fur for two whole days ys on oil lite deek deck of a 1 Y yacht in ill a mediterranean port poil at the end of two days in is lie ho arose and called for tinner inner in ili those lio lays days lie had I 1 milt his plot lie phap chapters the iho characters tho the incidents TI alic e combinations were all arran arranged ed ilin in the artist s brain before lie had put pen to lo paper my pegasus adds thackeray won t L fly so as to let too roo sur survey ey tile lute field before mu me HO lias has po wings whigs 0 lie is blind of an eye certainly illya lia hu Is restive stubborn slow crops a liet hedge hehn lien lie ought to lie ile galloping or gallops when lie to lie quiet UP lie will never show off cileli I 1 want him 1 lip goes tit at it 11 pace that surprises tile me sometimes when ilela I 1 most wish visit billit to make the running rui iiii the brute turns rL stile and I 1 nit am obliged to lut hint tahe ili chii it ehric A N TV cry differ eat author froni froin thack cray li illiam Gouth Nin of calub williams williami fame faim deb eribes ito liow w liis his book was how it grew upon blin bit 1 by bit from the batlo ards theoti through h the first aud second vo volu lutrica to ice the central idea of pursuer and pur pursued 11 1 then sat dwin down lie says to kiili my lily story from the be beginning inning I 1 wrote for the most part buca but a batall small portion lit in each day I 1 wiola only the lilla tui nus nati on oil tile inc I 1 held befth it for a maxim m iani that th il nor any portion written ritt ca when I 1 na not fu ll 11 Y in ill aliv clu told for burr i or c than thai nothing iio lhing IdI CUIL aia a thuu thou arid and times better lit in tins this laje HSI than writing aguina the gram grain idlene was vas the only time lost 1051 but a te written flatly atly fl feebly und arid in lite 1 1 I I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 that it WM den 0 o lip ebli t ti A rihl aloin I 1 wt tit hi i IN N tr rt i for or a 1 I neek or ten ii da 4 not a line at el it all carl fame 10 lo the same thin tiling inythe in alio end on n at an average a volume of C 1 1 ii 1 MO V 41 liani liams cost me inc four manth neith er loss less nor more aai waal would hii or sirs wood tay edy to till slow rate of progress in ili four months month they would turn oft off I 1 with ith WWI case nol one cue but three volumes still sill their volumes are arc not works of art aft as C caleb ili lei wit wil liams is let us u licar hear abut Rosse loseau ati tells tella us about his writh writing 7 sly ily MS lie says blotted sera scratched d interlined interlinked inter lined arid and n arcely legible fittest attest the trouble t they bey cost coat itie inc bliefe Is s not one 0 of them which I 1 have not been obliged to transcribe throe three or four times before it went to I 1 could never do any thing abing 0 when placed ill iii a arble pen in hand han d it must bo be walking amon among the rocks or in the woods it is ii at it night in ray my f wakeful laboda that I 1 compose it may be judged liow tow blow slowly ly particularly for fora a man n alio ito nis nas not the be ad advantage vanti ge of memory some of my periods period sl I 1 have turned and Tetu returned rued in my iny licad for live five or s six ix ni nights 0 ailts br before they were fit to berutto be put to p paper aper georges sand also composed at it inget not lying alyin in lied but sitting silling nt at her table unlike tier inspiration ic began I 1 nn late laic while his lii scented to flow early site she took look to tier pen nt 11 p in arid and went en cn writing till 2 or 3 in ili the um ug 0 if at thie leour she hid bad finished one novil novel she be beon began 0 on nn another other her aiss were quite finite free from era erasure perhaps the most laborious writer the world has ever seen was petrarca Petr arch some of his experiences in writing 0 a sonnet are arc rious itis 1 first arst of all tile the idea appears and lint at 3 0 clock a 1 I in on tile the lolliot of october lie exclaims with all the ardor of a parent for his offspring 1 I like this on oil october 30 at 4 10 otlo cl in the morning lie says no this aliis docs doe snot nut III e ran me on december au in the evening ing lie solemnly announced 1 I shall rc this acain I 1 lam nin called to su supper oil oi february 18 1 tou towards ards noon lie criesi this ja now w well however look bat it it arra aga n i ani and nil this for one sonnet sheridan certainly carried out liis ills on 11 theory aboul cast writing 0 ile he correct corrected ed and re corrected revised and recast till alio first copy ol of liis his P plays bys was quite from the las ins the present charles murfa surface cc was at 1 first arst Chri cl mont then floribal Flo riyal then captain henry plausible then harry or oc pliable then you young 11 harrier and then allu n frank MI while i le lis liis I 1 elder brother was plausible pliable Illi nule young pliant tom and lastly joaeph surface the two original plots for the school for so bidal were joined iulo one and till nil lie bu business si of tile llie opening I 1 be with nith lady lilly at present by sneak uni given to lo a character lifter afterwards wards wholly choll omiL omitted ted miss virginia sir peter was old reaz lej a leftoff left off tradesmen and lady tazle wits was sirs tencle in ili the third act acl there was it a low long scone found ill placed anti and was accordingly cancelled etc deion followed rel revision ision until the words were scrawled at llie end I 1 11 ll inis lied at aali aitt it god it I 1 13 sheridan ainan 1 M I 1 I 1 hopkins hopking I 1 oking I 1 no lends leads more lily or is mole T ir tit alian in 4 alic lie stoops to conquer ind and yet when gold dulith was writing it lie says 1 I lime been bac n trying tha e thin thice months to do something to make people laugh alele I 1 hail been strolling about tile aled hedges cs still studying YinO jests with a most countenance among modern rit ets bular lylton cioto at first very slowly and with willi m grent great difficulty ile he rewrote W some of his unpublished essays little nine or ten tell limes ile he only wrote about three hours it day front froni ten tell to 0 one seldom later As practice gave him more case IT lie c began begaii to write very rapidly t turning arnin oft off V pages a day of novel print ri IV wo 0 ca cannot annot help seeing that authors illich wo write scowl slowly y arid and deliberate deliberately I 1 v ivice the best thackeray will live lon longer loner er than ind and balzac ISil zac thin than alcairo Alc anro dumas in this casci case it often toften proves eliat tha tover over haste is 19 a positive defect and til 11 time lime cu and ud perseverance tire are necessary ces aary to a good 0 oad writer ladies treasury |