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Show HOW TO LEARN TO WRITE Road .to Success In Literature la a Lono One, and the Path Thickly Beset With Sorrows. Tutting words together Is not writing; writ-ing; making fine sentences Is not writing; elaborating striking plots Is not writing. Of nil the nrts, literature litera-ture is the most cxnctlng mistress. To write you must hne lived, you must hnvo suffered nnd know Joy, you must be able to analyze people, to understand under-stand ti'olr motives, to lovo them. Granted thnt you have lenrned something of tho motives, the passions, pas-sions, tho sorrows that rack us humans, hu-mans, then you must nlso have your medium In control. Words nre like. llttlo crentures thnt march und fight nnd sing. Tlfey nre like extra hands nnd brains. All the passions wait on them. Until you get this sense of tho cholccness, tho fragility, tho power of words, you nro not ready to transcribe tran-scribe your thoughts. You must support yourself, then study when you cnn. Write nil the time, get facility with words, then tear up your manuscript. Don't try to sell things. Ilegln to watch people, get nbreast of events. Read the papers pa-pers nnd the magazines In tho library. Head Shakespeare, Holding, Dickens, Thuckeray, Itunyaa, Meredith, Barrio and Oalhworthy. You might even try Shuw. American Magazine. |