Write Your Own Best Seller

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MARTHE McKENNA
Write Your Own
Best-Seller
In this very comprehensive study
of the business and technique of
novel-writing, Mis. McKenna, the
sale of her own novels having passed
the million mark, provides what is
probably the fullest and the most
helpful guide yet to appear on this
subject; her sage treatment of it
offers an immense fund of informa-
tion and entertainment to would-be
authors and to ordinary readers
alike.
"Having decided to write," she
says, "your first difficulty is to
arrest the thought-stream and put
into harmonious sentence and intel-
ligible sequence those experiences
and adventures — important and
trivial, tragic and comic—those ideas
and ingenuities, those impressions
and expressions, miscellaneous,
vague, chaotic, that have occurred
or befallen you—to arrange your
flow of words in such a manner as
will amuse or thrill, appeal to the
pity or rouse the passions, pique
the curiosity or evoke the wonder
of a delighted reading... Tovább

Fülszöveg

MARTHE McKENNA
Write Your Own
Best-Seller
In this very comprehensive study
of the business and technique of
novel-writing, Mis. McKenna, the
sale of her own novels having passed
the million mark, provides what is
probably the fullest and the most
helpful guide yet to appear on this
subject; her sage treatment of it
offers an immense fund of informa-
tion and entertainment to would-be
authors and to ordinary readers
alike.
"Having decided to write," she
says, "your first difficulty is to
arrest the thought-stream and put
into harmonious sentence and intel-
ligible sequence those experiences
and adventures — important and
trivial, tragic and comic—those ideas
and ingenuities, those impressions
and expressions, miscellaneous,
vague, chaotic, that have occurred
or befallen you—to arrange your
flow of words in such a manner as
will amuse or thrill, appeal to the
pity or rouse the passions, pique
the curiosity or evoke the wonder
of a delighted reading world.
"In short, you wish to stage in
print an entertainment which will
completely satisfy your reader.
"How arrange that mass of
material you have jotted down in
notes, how present to the best
advantage the life and adventures
of your hero, how present that
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Best-Seller
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secret diary you have kept, or how
fix on paper that hopeless indiges-
tion of the mind that has been
plaguing you for months past? How
Degin to the best advantage; having
begun, how to continue with logical
grip; and, having succeeded in dress-
ing the dry bones of your inspiration
and experience with an alive vivid
flesh-and-blood body, how to end on
a storming note that will not only
live in the memory of your grateful
reading public, but will send it
hastening to the booksellers for that
second best-seller effort of yours?"
To these and many other questions
Marthe McKenna provides the
answers in this book. Vissza