| Show Author of o Novels Tells I 1 I How She Sh Wrote Th T e S I ODON Do Doe 1 a girl ansi two men loden Choose 1 a locality Slow Slowly L ly Iy add 1 other characters Dictate about words n a tIny dllY In 1 a fortnight yoU have u a com complete plato novel Something th time above Is the avowed recIpe or of L I T I Meade the tho iou popular EnglIsh authoress Meade laughs laughR when ono one talks or of ortho the tho out of a I seldom have balo one she to moo me yesterday and when I have one I never neel stick to It rIte rha that comes moo mo moment ment by moment Is fa far bettor Meade ought t know for her novels are certainly thrilling und and their plots arc complex she shi published her to ro which alto sho called TIme Diamond and she sho Is now hard nt at work on her althoUgh I could not get so much as all no Inkling her us to what It is 19 about seeing that It was so recently Mrs Meade definitely know SIte She Is Irish thIs versatile story storyteller toiler teller and ono one or of 11 a select band ot of suc authors who began wrIting n at atan nn an early age She wrote her book a story for she was IM seventeen She Sho Iy is ono one of a 0 numerous ami distinguished family liar Her father tin an Irish named her Her uncle Is bishop ot of Cork her cousin tho Earl larl or of who 20 ago ngo corn com mantled the North orth Am American fleet or of orthe the British navy Soon after her first book was pub Miss Mendo a 11 govern government ment post at the tho h distinguished offered to get gether her a government billet anti he chose choso ono one that brought her In Inthe inthe the midst of books and musty docu meats ments and historic manuscripts She Sho lived b by choice In otto ono of the centuries old structures In the tho heart or of the tho nn an dent clent studied the tho east enst end or of London and Its peopleS In her spare time alto sho scrIbbled away tot for dear life antI attracted the tho ot of editors anti publishers by her magazine anti newspaper stories Then Caine nn an otter ot of the tho of At Atlanta lanta the tho girls Irl magazine For sIx years Miss heM held this post anti at the tho same turned out several dozen hooks books for girls Tho They were mostly ot of school life and In Intensely tensely popular Then carne caine her collaboration on n a novel It Its II Immediate success and the tho ro romance nuance mance of her life She married Dr Smith No longer had the she to tobe tobe be thc slave ot of that tho She Sho was able to spend all the tho time she sho on the tho writing of her beloved books Novel oel otter after novel noel Appeared arid then her son nn and 1 two be beJan Jan gao to 10 grow Irow up the mother went hack to 10 her books for boys and girls wIth hero here and there thero n a novel always nn an In Intensely tensely dramatic work Ono One belIeve bellee these were written by bytho bythe the tho minnie sILme author of the tho many simple pie ansi charmIng girls ll k The Tho Brotherhood or of the tho Seven Kings Is p Mel As to hiet hoi hOJ Ir r Cd her l i k Its t are oIl ull popular Tit ru re i r g I ria homo home La In BrItain h anti girls l a r In Ii ot b X J IS T 1 Is te at I ti b se girls or of the Q II queen ot of Bh slit e Is i It t Sh traveis n a good Ira h nil all oser oer I i 1 wo beautiful home hOlne Is s a d nar or of breezy e tin of 1 T mr mn xi In o 0 01 In n a reat groat deal doal fr or 5 t Iet noted bridge J I pit lety dl t 11 one of the tho t t novelists ot of When Shen 1 lie be the loet I pr Of ot of Ihie flue Dir n a tory new tit I in I tort blo library rite Tho walls h her CO eNd erd to the tho r II with were r CC CI or of books bools wh e leather arri an chaIrs Several f that lIat top the an 1 1 is 19 my Sill j In said Mrs Mend Yet I tCP do n h hero r much i aply to mornings morning I ea r re riso root reet my work I I title Inte nil all toil er r my ito and novels to my I I 1 wor work k every y morning from week 7 i 9 o to 1 n a half hours p mthr a 1 r I read real f tors n m let fIrst tL Then I revise the r loUI of cr at script Then I idOl am fad to dictate Uj i do this walking t I round the rOOm moon sometimes at the In or of a II t Te I to I lk k rt ft although Ilk itt r C h b on II a f h with s eyes shut when J I II ave be teen n liL I aboul h IN bps to f bring Ide a Suppose I wont a new story I take t gIrl two teen mel 1 hunt up ty nin for ii t these hello characters It trout rom t Who or n a city Ire I lot n a score of If names 01 arm 0 a 1 01 tr arid mix them u rut Next ex I chott a a 10 the fill country Fra ce Germany r I h to h think wilt serve sero best beAt ov I era am rea mealy y to to I start dictating Plot No Co no T hn have e no plot and tU ao a rule M uti the slightest Idea ot of the stor sIll l he be I 1 just t mak 1 a beginning anti and a aTti takes her notes nolIs the tho story hegI to unwInd itel anti and grows 1 The Tha In and local color come IU as from moment to 10 moment Tha plot pItt unfolds Il el quite cailly At I 1 II we top atop I inure hae 1 t To TN words word I cannot work it If I 1 d dI I average WOrds a day during lb tc three anti n it It If a t Is In a 11 great hurry I 1 can do S 8 b bit bitI t tI I prefer not to AS a rule Sometimes or of cours cour uJ mn publishers ask for tor n a plot and the Lr LrI P PI I have to 1 1111 them a 11 tit titI e eI I cannot r t eYer eser hI hIto to It when I lusts thlu is i Its very Ir much ea easier rot rt t f an plot pint but bitt let thu th I 1 tj Occasionally OccasIonal a rr huIt for tor a novel In a hurlY hurri flo one ot oat th It 0 t thin therell the riot I dPI did It it orM ori II CalirI a of my moat sur It s 1 finished hi IMPS heaps ct cf time but buI I hlll hi ii to tn w ork morning anil nIght It It IL AntI tints rather too hard work wort The rho Theone one Is growing old chI chIA A As a ot of fail Mrs Irs eade I 40 timid as youthful hoking II a mitten matron a ever er en came me out or of th County of 01 Cor CorTier Tier ITer hall hair Is sunny her eyes 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