Excerpt from Short Story-Writing: An Art or a Trade? For I have been teaching, for a number of years, the Technique of Short story-writing, and my guidance and judgment have meant life and death to countless stories born in the breasts and minds of trustful people. I have been the great discour ager and encourager Of genius and quasi-genius, and I know my hands are not without stain of liter ary blood. I am not reproaching myself. Among the many hundreds Of men and women who derive their daily bread and clothes and ...
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Excerpt from Short Story-Writing: An Art or a Trade? For I have been teaching, for a number of years, the Technique of Short story-writing, and my guidance and judgment have meant life and death to countless stories born in the breasts and minds of trustful people. I have been the great discour ager and encourager Of genius and quasi-genius, and I know my hands are not without stain of liter ary blood. I am not reproaching myself. Among the many hundreds Of men and women who derive their daily bread and clothes and gasoline by directing the story-fancy Of the country's million or more literary aspirants, I class myself among the most conscientious and least harmful. The share of in jury I may have contributed has simply been the unavoidable accompaniment of being engaged in a profession grounded upon the popular belief that literature is a trade, like plumbing, or tailoring, or hod-carrying, and requires but an understanding of the stupendous emoluments involved and a will to learn. That it is in the interests of the profession to foster and perpetuate this popular belief needs no elaborate substantiation. But that the belief itself should be based on a measure of solid truth is a sardonic phenomenon calling for enlightening discussion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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