"Pull together" your MS., 255
_Punch_ and a "curtain," 233
_Punch_, influence of, 286
Purpose, all writing should have a, 128
Q
Quiller-Couch, Sir A., 65
Quotation marks, 161
R
Reader's choice, rather than yours, for the reader, 151, 152
Reading, aloud, 55, 74;
helps you to judge the worth of information, 43;
loss of the power of, 39;
and nibbling, 40;
necessary for historical stories, 41
Read only what you can read thoroughly, 40
"Realism" in fiction, 290
Reliability essential, 46
Return of MSS., 277
Reviewers, 118
Rhapsodies do not constitute poetry, 236
"Rich sonority," 54
Righteousness, authors should aim at, 293
Rives, Amelie, and local colour, 176
_Rosary, The_, heroine of, 210
Rossetti, Christina, 75;
and Mrs. Browning, and Tennyson, 76, 77
"Rough-hewn" method, 70
Routine in editors' offices, 283
_Rubaiyat_, pessimistic "atmosphere" of the, 184
Rules, established, save our wasting time, 130
Ruskin's "Chapter on Chimney-Pots," 44;
defects overlooked, 124;
_Poetry of Architecture_, _Queen of the Air_, _Preterita_, 65;
_Sesame and Lilies_, 65, 183;
tangents, 137
S
Schools for literature needed, 5
Scott's _Lady of the Lake_, 173
Secondary matter in story, 85
Seeing yourself in print should not be alone the object in writing, 148
Selection, instinct for, 139, 146
Self-expression, craving for, 9
Selling, the essential of book production, 119
Sensational, the demand for, 38
Sentences should be short, 221
Serial publication necessitates "curtains," 231
_Sesame and Lilies_, 183
Settle your chronological starting point, 145
Shakespeare language not necessary to amateur, 50
Shakespeare and spiritual values, 28, 29;
why we read, 111, 112
Sharp, Wm., 171
Shaw, Bernard, cynical scintillations of, 165
Shelley's _Cloud_, 75
Short sentences an advantage, 221
Short stories need same rules as long ones, 90
Shrieking books, 38
Skimming, danger of, 36
Slang indicates ignorance, 62
Slang, monotony of, 61
Slangy style, avoid, 161
Smile, making people, 293
Snippets of reading, 37
_Sonnets from the Portuguese_, Mrs. Browning, 244
Sound, refined and otherwise, 69
_Spectator_ articles for style, 55
Speeding up our sentences, 49
Spiritual values to be noted, 24
Spiritual values and Shakespeare, 28, 29
Stale material, 45
Start where you are, 224
Starting-point, chronological, to be settled, 145
Steel, Mrs. F. A., 91, 174
Stevenson, R. L., _Essays_, 64;
_Garden of Verses_, 250
Story, "atmospheric" purpose of author, 89;
balance of, 135;
assessing values of characters, 85;
climax never to be lost sight of, 89;
contrasts, examples of, 87;
cut out irrelevant particulars, 136;
dovetailing incidents, 89;
framework of, 82;
get well under way early in, 134;
historical reading necessary for, 41;
keynote of, 79;
length of, 134;
the minor details, 86;
the three-part basis, 132;
incidents, select those that matter, 142;
in form of diary, 192;
in form of letters, 193;
over-crowding with detail, 92;
"slap dash" method of writing, 92;
told in clear manner most popular, 196;
written in first person, limitations of, 188;
written in third person usually best, 188;
secondary matter in, 85
Stories by masters, nothing merely a "fill-up," 86
Stories, short, need same rules as long ones, 90
Strauss' sound monstrosities, 68
"Strong" fiction, 287
Style, avoid indefinite, 156
Style of writing should vary, 104
Subjects must be of interest to readers, 119;
not repeated by editors, 153;
unable to be studied should be avoided, 19
Successful books must be well-written, 294
Swinburne and Longfellow, 76
Sympathy needed to write convincingly, 29, 30
T
Tact necessary to contributors, 284
Taylor, Ann and Jane, 124
Tennyson and Christina Rossetti, 77
Tennyson's "Break, break, break," 171;
"Flower in a Crannied Wall," 171
Tennyson's poems for reading aloud, 74
Thinking, formless, 171
Third-person narrative usually best, 188
Thought transference, 59
Thought, beware of labouring a, 160
Thoughts, difficulty of writing them down, 98
Three-part basis of story, 132
_Timothy's Quest_, 224
Topicality, keep an eye on, 150
Training for authorship imperative, 5
Training yourself, 140
Travellers, publishers', as readers, 118
Typed MSS. most likely to be read, 278
U
Ugliness is not art, 291
_Uncle Tom's Cabin_, central idea of, 79
Unpleasant topics, 288
Unseen that counts, the, 24
Using two words where one will suffice, 50
V
_Valley Song_, by Mabel Earle, 248
Verse, abbreviations to be avoided in, 247
Verse, amateur, 239
Verse anthologies, 75, 76
Verse-making, laws of, to be studied, 235
Verse must voice world-wide need, 243
Verse, worth reading, amateur, 239
Verse-writing a useful exercise, 234;
leads to good prose, 72
Vocabulary of average person, 60
W
Wax-Figure characters, 26
Wedding need not be chief aim of novel, 80
Well-worn plots, 204
_When Knighthood was in Flower_, "atmosphere" of, 184
Wholesome literature preferred by public, 295
Why, every, hath a wherefore, 160
Why some books survive, 28, 29
Wiggin, Kate Douglas, 224
Wilkins, Mary E., and local colour, 175, 176
Wilson, President, 171-word sentence, 221
_Window in Thrums, A_, 224
Wister, Owen, and local colour, 176
_Woman's Magazine_ offered unsuitable subjects, 153
_Woman's Magazine_ at press some weeks before publication, 150
Wooden-horse heroes, 26
Word, value of a, 66
Word-picture, fragmentary, 169
Word-picture study, 104
Word-pictures, need to select incidents for, 141
Words, greatest writers had no more than we, 251
Words, subject should regulate choice, 158
Words, use simple, 67
Words, using two when one will suffice, 50
Write as you actually speak, 48
Writing difficult to reduce to set of rules, 8
Writing is hard work, 204
Writer's influence greater than preacher's, 287
Writing a serious responsibility, 287
Writing that lasts, 25
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Transcriber's note:
Obvious misprints and punctuation errors have been corrected silently.