The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-05
DON'T GIVE UP
 JOB TO BECOME
 A STORY WRITER
Arthur Guiterman Says It's Always Well To Have ,
 Some Other Income.

Urging young writers to put only their best. into what ever they do and admonishing them not to expect to make a living. by writing until they are well established as authors, Ar thur Guiternan, one of the best known writers of verse in this eoun- try, appeared before the members of the Writers club last evening. As at the first gathering of this, unique or ganization, MT. and Mrs. William T. Hincks, who were the origina tors of the idea of such a club, opened their home at 152 Park place. The organ ization is solely for sincere workers. The interest betrayed in the meetings by the members has kept the speakers at both lectures until late answering questions and discussing further the subjects talked about in his speech.
 MT. Guiterman talked first on the technical side of verse writing. He made a. distinction between verse writing and writing of poetry.
 eAny one,'' he said, with a good ear for rhythm can write good verse natura1ly.''
 The tendency. of today in writing is toward simplicity and directness in expression, according to MT. Gutter man. Verse makers and poets are using common terms, not the literary language of time of Wordsw orth. To his mind, he said, the greatest poetry
 
 s"The biggest field today in verse; writing is humorous verse; said Mr. Guiterman. There is a reader market for good humorous verse than for any other kind. Young writers should however, follow their own inclination and write only on what interests them and write for their own p1easure..,'
 Topical verse writing, which is deal ing with some topic of public interest at the particular time, always has a ready market we'll done. MT. Gutter man assured his hearers that it was always hard to "break in'' and said that a good way was to contribute verses to newspapers without pay but to get oneself known. Good work will eventually get the young writer recognition from some magazine editor.
 This he said had been his experience. He has been writing verse for more than 20 years but always had other means of making a livelihood before he was well established as a, writer.
 It was very interesting to the club to learn through MT. Hincks, who in troduced the speaker, that MT. Cutter man had made his home in Bridgeport from the time, that he was six years old until he was eight, living in the Atlantic hotel.
 When asked about eFree Verse; MT. GJ1iterman said that most Free Verse that he had seen was spoiled prose, The trouble with the move nent, he claimed, was that it had grown to be a school One or two of the persons doing Free Verse have written some very beautiful examples of this, but that he had always found that those who had done good work in the regular verse.
 He suggested to young writers who were trying to getla market for their work, that there was always an op- portunity to write short verses for greeting cards, such as birthday or cards, as good examples of these are always in demand.
 One of the most delightful parts of | MT. Guiterman's very Instructive talk l was the reading of several of his own poems, as well as several lyric ones.