Show i I i I The TI le Ie Writing vv T v Game Game e i 1 X By RING LARDNER s e. e M N N N 1 N H N N N M N N N N H N M N 1 N N N 11 H 1 T TTo To the Editor The Tho letter reed recd from tram 1 of my I admIrers in Brazil Ind exclaims itself it- it self liD Dear car Sir I been reading your letters letters letters let let- in these co cols Is for tor n a good many mos coos and find them very Interesting a 8 specially the letters advertising that you was to start a n school of photo piny play find and In those letters letters let let- tel'S you give your readers reader's n a good I many hints In regards to how v photo II pla plays plas s should be wrote as ns asell well ell as a n aI nI I sample of n 5 reel photo drama dramn Now no doubt theys they's a great grent many people people peo peo- I pie that considered capable of photo pla plays s 's but couldn't I afford to take none of the high pi place Ice ke II correspondents In snore same and I would woul of always remained a drug dlUg In II II I j I I their office or some had you ou nol nog of rains carne to bat with your our low I I price school I INow Now what I 1 ask Is why wont won't you yoube yoube yon be as of the people that wants to write short stories like you was to the ones that wanted to write for pictures I 1 have always feel like lice I had a gift Sift for short fir fie j tines Hons but dont don't know nothing about I of stories und and etc and couldn't dig up the price witch is demanded by hy the correspondents schools for tuition and etc It seems t to me like you jou ou are arc well qualified to J 1 JI t I learn people the Ule art alt of at story write- write I J I ing even cn better than other kinds of or 1 because I once rea read a story Y I of or yours In a magazine witch you rou J must of been the e editors editor's brother In Inlaw Inlaw inlaw law but still nn and nit nil It was printed and you probably got gat pa ed for or same same witch is more than you jou can sn say in hI regards to your efforts at nt photo plays s I. I S o TT t l' u ho he so cr en 1 ind a mill nd onn open uI ur nr i V o. wt n U 1 vu I a coarse In short story stor nil 1 I give gl us a In these cols what I Ithe I the secrets und and principals is that I makes a successful short story tory fi fiction tie fic tion writer and I am nm only 1 of thou thousands sands that will be Interested and may maybe maybe a be subscribe to your jour our school I IThe I Ionly n The writer to the above ubo Is not the only party that tins has come to me with requests along the same lines and It begins to look like I would be doing do doIng In Ing a u public service was I to with Ith their reque s along these lines In the first tilSt place the tine average early parly tins bus got a magazine e editor all wron wrong witch they usually are They The think he Is a man that will give gi er e everybody every cry b body a square deal eal where as ns the most of them lets their personal feelings s and get gel et the best of them The best rule for a new beginner to follow Is to 1st get a idear for u a astory story thud then forget the l ear and go po ahead nn and write the story out or dictate dictate dic dic- tate It to somebody that thai has hns got n a nond good flood ond hand w or better belter yet et one of f these new faule machines call called ell n u typewriter that makes It look all most like lIle print Then put a n good su suggestive gestl e title I Ion on the story like for lust Claras Calves and then give gl It to your family iI to rend read and If they say It I. I rends reads good why wily It must be good I and the next question Is how to pet get petit it before n a magazine editor an and get geta a square deal j I But I 1 of at the biggest mistakes a anew new beginner makes Is to send re return return turn stamps along with their manuscript manuscript manu mann script as ns most of the e editors is air airtight airtight tight and the minute they see stamps that somebody else has boughten Wh why they cant can't wait walt a minute till they 1 use them and whist back comes your manuscript I remember once before I become a wise cracker that I sent senta a stamped self address envelope along with a good story I wrote and theold theold the theold old skin flint shot it back at me pro po I tern all nil because he couldn't do nothing else with a addressed envelope elope with the stamps stomps stuck to It and couldn't bear to see it wasted Both my ray sisters read the story I speak of and saM sail it was a n pip and I wished the old Shylock Shylock Shylock Shy- Shy lock could of at heard what they said about him for sending it back Well then the only way to get a 0 square deal from n a editor Is to scrap up a acquaintance with somebody that hint thatis is all ready in the game same and the editor knows who he Is and got respects for him and then you have haye e ethis this bird write a letter for tor you ou to send along with the manuscript and have him sn say in the letter that your story Is 0 O. K and the editor Is a u sap sag sn if he be dont don't accept because you ou have e got a lot of friends that will sto stop stol their subscription If It that stor story comes come's back So much for tor how to get a square deal deg after your story is wrote As for forthe forthe forthe the Itself a gOO good many fl news new W beginners falls tails down because they I Itry try and their story without the right atmosphere re to work in I cant can't give no advise on this subject as tilt dif different ferent ant authors ors deman demands s different working conditions For the they say pay nr Rupert H. H Hughes Bushes cant can't write writ e a n line tiniest the tho water Is running in the bathtub and Fannie Fannio Hurst Burst wont won't attempt nt- nt I tempt to work without the room is full of sardine cans where as when the editor wants a story out of Mrs Irs Rinehart they get somebody to stand and snap a n rubber rubbe bank at her n neck rk I never feel comfortable at my ray desk theys they's s 's a n dozen large rats packed on my ft These will give you a idear of how different different different differ differ- ent affects different writers but as I say each writer hasto basto has bas hasto to choose for himself what temper temper- munt to have bove and I might advise you to try In a public garage where as you might do your best work I Betting setting In tn a eel trap i I f C D j bythe by the Den Bell Syndicate Inc |