Show MW X the writing game by RING LARDNER MK MM to the editor the follin letter reed from rora 1 of my admirers to in brazil ind exclaims itself dear sir I 1 been reading your letters in these cols cola tor for a good many inos us and find and them very interesting a specially the letters advertising that you was to start a school of photo play writhing writ write eing log and in those letters you give your readers 1 a goo good I 1 many hints in rega regards ads to bow bol photo plays should be wrote as well uell as a sample of a 6 5 reel photo drama now no doubt theys a great many people that considered the capable of writhing writ eing photo plays but afford to take none of the high ailee pi ice correspondents charses in same and would of remained a drug in their office or bad you not of conic came to bat with your low lew price school now what I 1 ask Is why wont you be ns as thoughtful thought full of the people it that hat wants to write short stories like sou was as to the ones that fiat want wanted ed to write for pictures I 1 have hae always feel 11 like ke I 1 hail bat a girt gift for rit eing short fictions but dont linow know nothing about length of stories and etc and dig up the price witch Is demanded by the correspondents schools for tuition and etc it seems to me like ille iou are well qualified to learn people the art of 0 story write ing even een better than other kinds of 0 writhing writ eing leing because I 1 once read a story of yours Is in a 8 magazine witch you must of been the editors brother in law but still and all it was printed ond and you probably got tor for same witch Is more than you can say in regards to your efforts at photo plays so will you be so kind and open up a coarse in short story writhing writ eing and give us a idear in these cols what the secrets and principals is that makes a successful short etory fiction writer and I 1 am only I 1 of thou solids sands that will be interested and may be subscribe to your school the writer to the above Is not the aly only party that has come to me with ve requests quests along the same sam e lines and it begins to look like I 1 would woud be doing ill a public service was I 1 to comply with ith their requests along these hoch in the first place the average party has got a magazine editor all wrong witch nitch they usually are they think lie Is a man that will give everybody a square deal A here as the most of them lets their personal feelings and temper munt get the best of them the best rule tor for a new beginner to follow la Is to get a idear for a atory and then forget the idear and go ahead and write the story out or dictate it to somebody that has got a good hand waited writhing writ teD eing or better yet one of these new tangle machines called a typewriter that makes it look all most like print theo then put a good suggestive title on the story title like for insl dinst claras calves and then give it to your family to rend read and it they say it reads good why it must be good and the next question Is s how to get it before a magazine balne editor and get a square deal but I 1 of the biggest mistakes a new beginner makes Is to send re turn stamps along with their manuscript as most of the editors Is air tight and the minute they see stamps that somebody else has boughten why they cant wait a minute till they use them and whist back comes cemes your manuscript I 1 remember once before I 1 become a wise cracker that I 1 sent a stamped self address envelope along vi sith ath a good story I 1 wrote and the old skin flint shot it back at me pro tern tem all because he do nothing else with a addressed envelope with the stamps stuck to it and bear to see gee it wasted both my sisters read the story I 1 speak of and sol gaii it was a pip and I 1 wished the old shy lock could of beard what they said about him for sending it back well then the only way to get a square deal from a editor Is to scroll scrap up a acquaintance with somebody that Is all ready in the writhing writ eing game and the editor knows who nho he Is and got respects for him and then you it have ave tills this bird write a letter for you to send along with the manuscript and have him say to in the letter that your story Is 0 1 K and the editor Is a sap sal it lie he dont accept because you have got of a lot of friends that will stop slop their subscription if that story coties comes back bacil so much for bow to get a squire deal after your story Is wrote As for the urit eing itself a good many new beginners falls down because they try and birte their story without the right atmosphere to work in I 1 cant give no advise on this subject as lit lif ferent authors demands different working conditions for lust list they aas ai rupert 11 hughes cant write a line the water waler Is running in the bathtub and fannie hurst wont attempt to work without the room Is 19 full of surd lile cans where as when the editor wants a story out of mrs rinehart they get somebody to stand and snap a rubber bank at her net nek k Ier Per sonly I 1 never feel comfortable at my desk onlest theys a large rats packed on my ft these dinst list nill ill give you a idear of how differ ent temper affects different ahlers but as I 1 say each writer tins has to choose for himself what temper to have and I 1 might advise you to try writhing writ eing to in a public ganage where as you might do your best work setting in a eel trop trap 0 by the bell syndicate inc |