Show A FLOOD OF WORDS WORDS A magazine has offered OOOO tor for the th most mott interesting novel noTel ot of any kind submitted before beCore cry ary IS 15 1927 What a flood floo of m manuscripts will follow follow- this Ibis sn an- an announcement announcement A magazine man recently told us something astonishing about the people in this country who are trying to write writ for tor the th maga maga- magazines m t One of the tb magazines he represents he li said receIves about manuscripts a a day Th The edl edi- edi editors tors think times are good good when tour four of ot the th manuscripts received I durIng a Whole month can be lie ac accepted Think or of o it it Four out of six sir thousand Many people think they need a pull to get et a manuscript accepted They dont don't The editors are hun gry for tor more talent so every elery man man- manuscript manuscript cs gets a reading There are tb the first readers and second readers The first have a II hard life Out of o C that tbt th mass of o very bad copy th they thoy y must pick out whatever seems at alt all promising The Th manuscripts the they hav have ha passed then to go 0 to the second readers These are ale ar more nor exper exper- persons persons They reject many the first readers send tb them m and pass on th the previous few fort that are an left lett to the editor The editor finally chooses the th stories that meet his requirements The writer has rood good reason tc to t feel encouraged it if his work work- seta gets as tar far as the editor The reason why we see the same sam names time Urn after tIme inthe in the th magazines app appears us to be b be I cause they are th the only ones w io I can turn out tb the stuff Of Ot coutEe cou t who are tryIng try trying eight million people popl ing to break In will deny this But there ther are the th facts I p no |