Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-03-27
AUTHOR TELLSOF
HER ODD START

4 ritter NnO "IOte IN she was
iil--who turned out her fist book
when she felt more like doing any
thing else, and the book is still selling
big, that is the kind of visitor HO-
nolu.u has today in Miss Edna Ferber.
the popular author who came here not
long ago with her mother 10 get 4
couple OF weeks rest and is taking il
at the MCana Hotel
Like many ether writer folk who
are more and more making Hawaii
their rendezvous the producer OF the
popular Emma McChesney stories Is
here for the sole intention Of having
her first holiday in long time. but IL
is so long since she had a vacation
that she hardly knows how to art. she
says.
But there are many fine things to do
in the sunshine OF the southern isles
and Miss Ferber is already wondering
II this would not be a fine place TO
stay to write land she has been heart.
lily assured by several II would) like
Jack London was so fond of doing,
since she has no real home any more.
Honest, haven't any home" she
declared to a reporter who thought
everyone had q home some place.
Well, where do you do your writ
ing, them" the lesser scribe demand
ed.
Miss Ferner laughed at his serious
, ness ~Oh. any place. I've written in
the0attic and out In a wood-shed or in
the front yard. Really. | believe I
could write hanging up on a hook.
Place affects me so little. Once | get
going the surroundings are lost"
The writer Gid not deny, however.
that the environments of Hawaii
might brighten her spirits and speed
her pen once she started here. =.
How did you ever happen to
write?" is tine popular question to ask
sity of replies is worthy of the query.
Miss Ferber's is as good as any-be-
cause she was sick.
II started in regular newspaper
work on the Daily Crescent, Appleton,
Wisconsin, she relates. when vas
II years old. Think Of 1t! ! can
hardly believe ii myself. I won't tell
you now how many years have been
writing after that admission (she real.
ly did, but II will never be said of a
reporter in good standing that he VIC.
lated trust, although this was hardly
that. ! did courts and everything in
regular reporter style. Wouldn't have
anything to do with society work
Then did police for another paper in
Milwaukee and finally special articles
for the Chicago Tribune" ..,.
Miss Ferber says she was with the
Tribune only a short time, however,
when she was taken sick for a year
and it was then she broke most prece.
dents In the literary line by making
her first work a novel instead of a
short story. She turned out Dawn
OHaras = a Milwaukee newspaper
story, and 1t had $4,000 sale only
last year. 49,. Ill.
A 100,000-word serial, the first in.
stalment of which is now due here in
the April American, is Miss Ferber's
latest work. She is anxious to see IL
to see how they decorated it, she
saws. 1t is called Fanny. Herself"
The writer also expects to find il
cut down considerable for, she says,
the average serial is too long and
should not run more than eight
months. Hence the blue pencil and
the shears. - II.
The time has come now that unless
the heroine is just going over the cliff
or out the cab window" she declared,
YOU had better not waste your words.
That's what most Of them want and
are willing to pay well for, too"