If You Don't Write FictionR. M. McBride, 1920 - 85 lappuses |
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... hundred years ago , and appears to be just as true to - day . Fortunately , the men who write the news get more out of the work than do their readers . The reporter usually can set down only a fraction of the 4 IF YOU DON'T WRITE FICTION.
... hundred years ago , and appears to be just as true to - day . Fortunately , the men who write the news get more out of the work than do their readers . The reporter usually can set down only a fraction of the 4 IF YOU DON'T WRITE FICTION.
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... hundreds of ambitious newspaper reporters are at this very minute urg- ing themselves to extra effort after hours and on their precious holidays and Sundays to test their luck in the magazine markets ? The num- ber must be considerable ...
... hundreds of ambitious newspaper reporters are at this very minute urg- ing themselves to extra effort after hours and on their precious holidays and Sundays to test their luck in the magazine markets ? The num- ber must be considerable ...
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... of effort upon that opening paragraph . Write your lead a dozen times , a hundred times , if necessary , until you make it rivet the attention . CHAPTER III HOW TO TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS FTER he has bought HOW TO PREPARE A MANUSCRIPT 15.
... of effort upon that opening paragraph . Write your lead a dozen times , a hundred times , if necessary , until you make it rivet the attention . CHAPTER III HOW TO TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS FTER he has bought HOW TO PREPARE A MANUSCRIPT 15.
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... stops . It is the happy medium stop at which , on bright days , you can properly expose for the great ma- jority of your subjects , those hundreds of scenes not close enough to the lens to be classified as 20 IF YOU DON'T WRITE FICTION.
... stops . It is the happy medium stop at which , on bright days , you can properly expose for the great ma- jority of your subjects , those hundreds of scenes not close enough to the lens to be classified as 20 IF YOU DON'T WRITE FICTION.
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... hundreds of pe- riodicals for real " stories " never has been satis- fied . The menu has to be filled out with a re- grettable proportion of bran and ersatz . The fact that a manuscript lacks all charm of style will not blast its ...
... hundreds of pe- riodicals for real " stories " never has been satis- fied . The menu has to be filled out with a re- grettable proportion of bran and ersatz . The fact that a manuscript lacks all charm of style will not blast its ...
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