If You Don't Write FictionR. M. McBride, 1920 - 85 lappuses |
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... testimony : " The literary life , " says no less an authority than H. G. Wells , " is one of the modern forms of adventure . " And this holds as true for the least of scrib- blers as it does for great authors . While the vi PREFACE.
... testimony : " The literary life , " says no less an authority than H. G. Wells , " is one of the modern forms of adventure . " And this holds as true for the least of scrib- blers as it does for great authors . While the vi PREFACE.
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... less light it requires . This may sound somewhat unreasonable , but that is how a camera works . A portrait head , or anything else that must be brought to within a few feet of the lens , requires the greatest width of shutter aperture ...
... less light it requires . This may sound somewhat unreasonable , but that is how a camera works . A portrait head , or anything else that must be brought to within a few feet of the lens , requires the greatest width of shutter aperture ...
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... less light than landscapes . Photographers have an axiom that " water is as bright as the sky itself . " So at " 64 , " which is proper expo- sure for the most distant of land panoramas , you begin to take waterscapes . That tiniest pin ...
... less light than landscapes . Photographers have an axiom that " water is as bright as the sky itself . " So at " 64 , " which is proper expo- sure for the most distant of land panoramas , you begin to take waterscapes . That tiniest pin ...
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... less it is true , as every editor knows to his constant sorrow . The appetite of our 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 ...
... less it is true , as every editor knows to his constant sorrow . The appetite of our 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 ...
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... They all use articles of more or less timeliness , but beyond this one similarity they are no more alike in character than an American , an Irishman , an Englishman , a Welshman and a Scot . Your burning FINDING A MARKET 27.
... They all use articles of more or less timeliness , but beyond this one similarity they are no more alike in character than an American , an Irishman , an Englishman , a Welshman and a Scot . Your burning FINDING A MARKET 27.
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