Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-11-14

couraged because their manuscript
comes back on them and they think
to themself that the story couldn't OF
been no good or tho editor would OF
eat it up. and they MAY AZ well give
up writeinR and try something else
Well the u. 3. 10 probably dirty with
these kind Of people that would OF
made grand authors n they hadn't Of
ignorants OF editors and how to ham
die them. The best rule for new
beginner TO follow Ia to LIST get
idear for . story and then forget the
story out or dictate II To somebody
that has got . good hand writeing
or better yet one of these new fangl.
machines called typewriter that
makes 81 look all most like print
Then put a good title on the story
like for inst. 'Clara's calves' and
then give IL to your family 10 read
and X they say IL reads good why
IL must be good and the next question
IS how TO get IL before a magazine
editor and get a square deal The
most magazine editors don't want
good stories as il crowds out the
ads and In the I'd. place the most edi-
tors won't read manuscripts themseIt
hockey 20 they give them to the wife
and kiddies and leave them pass judg-
ment or II they do read them them
self why the chances are they have
SOl u SeCgCt 8IakS VIC. you SOHle-
thing that maybe 1 of your relatives
done to them or you got the same
name as somebody they don't like and
that IL enough to knock your chances
for q COOL from field.
But / of the biggest mistakes a new
beginner makes is to send return
stamps along with their manuscript
as most Of the editors is air tight and
the minute they see stamps that some
body else has boughten why they cant
min
whist back comes your manuscript. l
remember once before I become a wise
cracker that / sent q stamped self
address envelope along with good
story I wrote and the old skin flint
shot 1t back at me pro tenn all be
cause he couldn't do nothing else with
. addressed envelope with the stamps
stuck to It and couldn't bear to see it
wasted. Both my sisters read this
story !! speak OF and said it was a
pip and l wished the old Shylock could
Of heard what they said about him for
sending it back.
Well then the only way to get a
square deal from a editor is to SCRAP
up a ACQUAINTANCE with somebody THAI
is all ready in the writeing game and
the editor knows who he is and got
respects for him and then have this
bird write a letter for you to send
along with the manuscript and have
him say in the letter that your. story
is o. K. and the editor is a sap if h..
don't accept because you have got Il
lot of friends that will stop their sub
scription TX that story comes back.
These kind of letters makes editor
think twice and they tell me that even
author like Irving r. Cobb don't
never think OF sending in a mss, witt
out getting somebody down in Wash
ington to write and tell the editor
where he will head in at IL they
any monkey business.
e. At
deal after your story is wrote. As
for the writeing itself good many
new beginners falls down because they
try and write their story without the
right atmosphere to work In. / can't
give no advice on this subject as
different authors demands different
working conditions. For inst. they
say Rupert NJ. Hughes can't write
line unlest the water is running in
the bath tub and Fannie Hurst won't
full Of sardine cans where as when
the editor wants Q story out OF MIS-:
Rinehart they get somebody to stand
and snap a rubber band at her neck.
Personly I never feel comfortable at
my desk unlest they's dozen large
rats parked on my tt These inst. will
give you q idear Of how different tenn
pefmunts effects different writers but,
as say, each writer has to chose Tor
themself what tempermunt to have
and I might advise you to try write
ing in q public garage whereas you
might do your best work setting in a
eel trap.
Next wk. I viii try and write . out
line Of . model short story showing
the technics and etc. and we will see
If they's enough interest in my meth
DDS to warrant me opening up Rew
school RING W. LARDNER.
Longs Island. November IL.
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