Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-06-11
NOTES

r7IOVlng is Harold MacGrdth o"H
a.scriptlon OF his method OF work.
rsnally begin a story as a dramatist
h,vsnsa play--With the end, Ihu cht!
s,lsrs work out the plot themselves
ave very little to do with II after they
hays started
me structure Of plot must natural
/ ~ 10 foremost. for. after all Is SAID ava
iane the storys the thing ! never out
s,s blot carry the main thread In
nv head M / AM ready 10 put II on
. ,,ner and after II assumes body OIL
aper It has many devious twists ana
. ans OF which / had no prior IDEA
The one definite idea | have IN m'nd
| n writing stories Is 10 afford an ayr e-
,ss pleasant hour or two TO my read
q / wish 70 amuse them, to make
SEN wish that they too, might nave
lived as this or that hero IN TINS or
N, land. probable or improbable. ]
,s,er sunshine. mirth, buoyancy, ana
Believe most readers prefer the same,
Crown up people are never wholly De
tryed n their love Of fairy tales; and
roVn up fairy tales have been the
scheme Of most Of my novels.
/ write whenever ] feel like 1t, for
when | am IN the mood | do better
I
much work each day There are days
I when 4 is Impossible to write hun
d-ed vcis. again, have written as
many a, 1000 words a day Obstaclcs2
Their are altogether too many 10 emu
merais A character that doesn't
hslk' never fails 10 be undressing
have always tried 20 place human
people In absurd or unique situations
thd 20 let them eXtrlcate themselves
a, you or | would n ~ placed.
The anatomy of a motif for a story IL
1 complex thing( but OF a practical
1ke The Man on the Box" was evoly-
q A young man, disguised as a
Oathman drove his sister and her
friends to a ball one night This hap
r'ned IN my native town. And
amused me greatly when
ruos said tho exploit was
kFhly improbable. out OF the
llilian state and church marriage came
N plot Of THE Lure OF the Mask"
Ihe most trivial thing sometimes will
nggest plot ! found the ten Of
hSrts one night on the sidewalk II
aetame the motif Of Hearts and
Masks Once. In Indianapolis, CHANGED
bsse an old Italian selling plaster i'm
1sss u gave me the starting point for
Splendid Hazard my latest took.
sometimes when II seems hard TO
tohneet one chapter with another | ind
ms obstacle easily mounted by writing
vac hst two or three pages OF the
ehapter Just finished This seems TO
Ne me swing 10 begin the next.
Asays begin story with n para graph
q sentence vital 10 the plot. some
hng 10 grip the readers attention
Iom the very start. but to accomplish
us the hrst page IL always to me the
Afaest bit OF writing IN the whole
tp0k
me dedicatory poem at the unwilling
" the Custer monument at Munroe,
acnlgan, June T. was written by VIII
,Ile'on. The poem was read by the
s.tnor following President Taft's adj
mss The author ~ Farm Ballads"
a Oiiy Ballads" went from Wash
's'on with the presidential party.
tIaVeIers In Mediterranean countries
vi. wv recognize many ~ the diyerting
a. anss Albert Blgelow Paine describes
:. nls new book. THE shin Dwellers"
sone o. The iests about foreigners mis-
c ~ u English are not confined 10
'snoa where this sign stands. ''Dlnner
ppNlhe Enclosed and another "Nilk
fT sale or To Let"
hearts Contending. the new novel
y! george schock which was in The Ilst
y Ost sellers In New York this week
,,s "et with high literary praise as
c.. mink better and better OF the
re schocks book" writes " n
iSss 10 friend TT seems IN mo
rlo, you nave started another George
p, ns'en l. Sumner has prepared ne a
In coi ~ nsr new book, Equal Suffrage
,bo,. number OF tables which
t6sr, 'ases of the problem. one ~
'ay,,, 20 aroused the attention Of suf-
urs, .'aaers IN tho east These ae-
o. No. "an Increase In the percentage
fnrs a,..N.nl VINO believe In woman suf-
uArk.d lssS' IN" increase being very
''' par! Of the women.
me- y'9 IT,, o. The quaint sayings Of Theus
round, -r mn nave already gone the
Holman nut ''oi Hloh' the politician OF
dsr." bas novel, The Ramrod-
can eusi,,,. numor of genuine Ameri-
OF his a.. Inese additional sayings
cate. me Ramrodders" indi-
cAanSs nave stood about tho same
best a.. a worsted dog chasing an az
~ - cat through hell" 's d" as
h vas Sr -suorm that sounds as though
I, u psrs sSn up by the house commit
isys Ia. yl1 GER, are the kind that he
every one s Jusi having the law makes
politics" Vt less barbed wire In
szs hs,s Plkc went TO replevip
hst 49,, ana after he'd chased ench
al down s,, uines around the barn he
ana charged up mileage 10 The