Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-01
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the June number tIarpers Ba-
"a Mary E. wilkins bman gives
a6ce as follows TO 81 who want TO
VIE:
krite about the thiT which inter
e{you or you will be great danger
ofnot interesting OIL hut never
nike interesting oths the chief in
cItiye to work. Tho sential worth
-oithe work must COT first. but OF
ctrse its quality of rest is neee3-
ly to make il W and widely
hwn. Avoid initial which is oft
z unconscious and h TO be detected
b your own sense. bver emulate
lie plot or subtle of nearing,
tsever, you may ad Fe another an-
br. Better to go own gait. al
bugh you may toddhnd limp, than
tgo the gait of and r
bnce started, onceite that you can
bite. that you waiko write, never
kome discouraged IN editor is only
Imam. He may b mistaken in his
Innate of your W Try to esti-
hte your own w0I as unsparlngiy
you would the w of another, and
en stand by you uns. 1t is not
nceited nor egoti4 al to believe in
merit of ones rk after it has
len subjected, an honestly, to the
rerest tests whidEou can use. IL
begotistical and ceited to lhlnK
|shly of ones sci ecause one mas
he the work, but is simply just to
INK highly of the ork if it Is good.
IIf is great mi Ike toslisten too
|nch to indiyidualriticism of liter
n efforts and to swayed by them.
be consequence soften an entire
ek of originalityhd a subservience
style to thou'hd different rules
shifting in no st1 You must learn
be your own 1ntor. In writing,
. in everything, is every one for
mself If anythif is to be accom-
shed that is kividually accom-
shed The olkdage, TOO many
oks spoil the bib" is very good
Ie for the your writer.
There is anoth point upon which
wish to state. II write tentatively
nee / am well tare that my views
AZ not coincidefith those OF others
"A that is Griffin and the wisdom
folly Of tryii to profit by it
for melf, while | am al.
avs very glad ( listen to and learn
ON highly esta7| shed authority, dc
ink that a YOU author is in danger
she places NH stress upon the
Unions of otha. She must remem'
8 fhat 4 reyie1r is paid for review
s and that it Railways possible thai
y Aown estimai of her work may be
i correct one She may, under the
f1uence Of thefevieWer, either over
tie or underra her story.
This Is IiableIo hinder progress Ell
Ter BY aelf-sasfaction, which leads
= to ston .cIhbing, or by discour
temenf whicIhoes exactly the same
Iing The Wdlan who is paid to, re
eW her sforvhay herself not only b.
tapai)leI Of ating one as good. blu
~ be- lDretet husiastir in praise o
-ercarping criticism. The CIR
10 has real dent is very apt to hav'
sensitive mare too easily influenc
by the opiion Of another. She i
rem raised i the undesirable skie
self.oorcef or plunged into th'
,uallT disasfous valley of humflia
1n b. . prited estimate Of her worl
hick may 4 thoroughly fallacious
81 thar reabn / consider it oftel
~ s,lhNise br a writer who is tim
" irving a. wings of first flight I
al reyfewsof her work. Often
~ Be probable and lead to adyanc
tener perhIps not.
After w'iter has established her
II, it is fo her to judge whether
for her b&efitsor injury to read ey
ythinr wich is written about he
3rk Whd she has herself so we
hand tia she is not In, danger 9
ritine the way Tom wishes or tn
" Dick tishes or the way Harr
shes and losing all originality,
" easilylbe a very good thing 10
& to lfead'all opinions and CLEAN &C
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