The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-07
STRICk HAS LOTS
TO OCCUPY Time;
WRITES ON TRAINS
BY STRICKLAND GILLIAN
(From the Lyceum Magazine)

knowing IQdL MI Illllidu HIS jail
med-up winter and summer platform
seasons, with the travel and exposure
that all professionals In that work
have. the Lyceum Magazine asked him
to tell how he manages to do his liter
ary work while travelling. We thought
it might encourage others to try to
take on other work to break the lonely
monotony of travel.
have been asked as to how many
and what publications l write for reg
ularly, and here Is the answer, up to
May /. I shall take on another pub
LEGATION or two in the fall, SO as to
Keep from utter idleness and getting
into trouble:
Two thousand words monthly for
Life Association News, New York.
One thousand words monthly for
Maryland Motorist.
Seven hundred to one thousand
words monthly for Farm Life.
Five thousand words monthly for
Retail Public Ledger, Philadelphia
tissues twice per month";.
A thousand words a month for De-
troit Athletic Club News.
A thousand words month for the
Journal of Education, Boston.
Five hundred to one thousand words
a month for Motor Life, New York.
The amount you see in this publica-
ton monthly.
A batch Of stuff for Roycroft almost
| every month.
| Verses regularly for The New Sue.
cess, while scarcely month passes
that one of the following does not
contain something of mine:
Ladies Home Journal, Good House
keeping, Munsey, etc, and in every is
sue of Life I have unsigned epigrams
or something else.
I have a feeling that l have omitted
something from the above list. Oh
yes, sometimes do some stuff for tho
Saturday Evening Post, and every sc
often l write a new insurance pamph
let, and place it on the market.
No, I do not work myself to death
l tell you l am looking for more jobs
l find put more new stuff into my lee
lures after writing all day than I DE-
when I doze around and complain
about the hotel or the hard travel o.
something.
Recently when 1 had been in bed a
Canon City till 100 a. m, had ridde1
in day coach to Pueblo and gone I,
bed at 3:45 to arise at 7, and had go
to Lamar at p. m, l was confronted
lie Ledger, saying: IF you haven't al
ready mailed your copy for By TIL,
Way column. wire us whether We ca,
expect 1t next Monday"
This, bless your dear heart, was tn
middle of Wednesday afternoon, il
Colorado. I wired: You may have it.
Two hours later, tho hadn't an idei
on paper or in my bean when tn
wire was delivered, the stuff was il
, the mail-fifteen hundred words .
it. in jokes, paragraphs and humorou
verse, and every single word Of it wa
printed the next Monday in Philadel
| phia.
Six Pieces of Verse
/ On April IS, en- route to Uniontown
. Pa, l wrote six pieces of verse, all o
which except one have been success
. fully marketed since, besides tW
/ prose articles for the Detroit Athleti
: Club News, and one for Marylan
Motorist. | have my Farm Life matte
; written to and including September
r and my Maryland Motorist stu ditto
r I hope before the summer season rea
/ ly opens, to have all my publication
: supplied two or three months ahead
: so that may loaf with the family o.
my auto trip over Whiteside's Altar
tic Coast circuit, and not have t
write more than thousand words o
so a week, except on special stuff, an
novel l am beginning to get read
. to start to prepare to write all of
sudden one of these times. And
have just as much fun on the road a
you do, and talk to every school bunC
, that will lgive ME the slightest encoul
: agement. | am going to learn to spea
, in public that way.
1t is much easier to work fast tina
slow, under pressure than untran
meled.