If You Don't Write FictionR. M. McBride, 1920 - 85 lappuses |
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... experience is so dull , so unromantic , so uninteresting . It is an entire mistake . If the dullest person in the ... experiences of a magazine free lance pass as " adventures " ? Then , again , I shall have to introduce expert testimony ...
... experience is so dull , so unromantic , so uninteresting . It is an entire mistake . If the dullest person in the ... experiences of a magazine free lance pass as " adventures " ? Then , again , I shall have to introduce expert testimony ...
2. lappuse
... experience in journalism covers barely fifteen years , the writer would not be bold enough to attempt to define a " story " further than to state that it is something in which an editor hopes his public will be interested at the time ...
... experience in journalism covers barely fifteen years , the writer would not be bold enough to attempt to define a " story " further than to state that it is something in which an editor hopes his public will be interested at the time ...
3. lappuse
... experience and is picked up by a cub . It is something you tell by the scent . This scent for the trail of a " story " may be sharpened by proper training , and one of the best places for a beginner to acquire such train- ing and earn ...
... experience and is picked up by a cub . It is something you tell by the scent . This scent for the trail of a " story " may be sharpened by proper training , and one of the best places for a beginner to acquire such train- ing and earn ...
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... experience can teach you nothing worth while unless it is a deeper knowledge of human nature . As a reporter you will view from behind the scenes what the peo- ple of an American community are like and catch some fleeting glimpses of ...
... experience can teach you nothing worth while unless it is a deeper knowledge of human nature . As a reporter you will view from behind the scenes what the peo- ple of an American community are like and catch some fleeting glimpses of ...
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... experience as a member of the editorial staff of a big national magazine allows me to make a surmise . I have read through bushels of manuscripts that had the ear marks of the newspaper office all over them ABOUT NOSES AND JAWS 7.
... experience as a member of the editorial staff of a big national magazine allows me to make a surmise . I have read through bushels of manuscripts that had the ear marks of the newspaper office all over them ABOUT NOSES AND JAWS 7.
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