item: #1 of 44
          id: 10420
      author: Lewes, George Henry
       title: The Principles of Success in Literature
        date: None
       words: 42580
      flesch: 57
     summary: Other men with little of this faculty, but with only so much of it as will enable them to imitate the tones and gestures of some admired actor, are misled by their vanity into the belief that they also are actors, that they also could move an audience as their original moves it. Their vision is keener than that of other men.
    keywords: art; attention; details; effect; experience; expression; facts; good; images; imagination; law; life; literature; man; means; men; mind; nature; objects; poet; power; principle; public; sense; simplicity; sincerity; style; success; symbols; things; thought; truth; vision; words; work; writer; writing
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        item: #2 of 44
          id: 11483
      author: Collingwood, Stuart Dodgson
       title: The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson)
        date: None
       words: 97571
      flesch: 75
     summary: But with little _boys_ And the hot dry air, that you breathe when you rush to the fire, is the praise that one gets from one's young, happy, rosy, I may even say _florid_ friends!
    keywords: 8vo; alice; author; book; bruno; carroll; chapter; charles; children; christ; church; college; come; course; day; days; dear; dodgson; euclid; face; fact; father; following; form; friend; girl; good; great; half; hand; head; hope; house; idea; illustration; kind; left; letter; lewis; lewis carroll; life; logic; london; look; love; macmillan; man; mathematical; men; mind; miss; mrs; new; night; number; oxford; paper; people; photograph; picture; place; point; read; reading; rev; room; school; second; sir; story; subject; sylvie; thing; thought; time; university; way; wonderland; words; work; writing; years
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        item: #3 of 44
          id: 12743
      author: Bennett, Arnold
       title: The Author's Craft
        date: None
       words: 19133
      flesch: 68
     summary: He is like other artists--he cannot remain silent; he cannot keep himself to himself, he is bursting with the news; he is bound to tell--the affair is too thrilling! Such artists, however--and they form possibly the majority--can always employ an expert to do their business for them, to cope on their behalf with the necessary middleman.
    keywords: artist; author; dramatist; english; fact; form; life; man; manager; mind; motor; novel; novelist; observation; play; public; sense; technique; time; work; world; write; writing
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        item: #4 of 44
          id: 14084
      author: Defoe, Daniel
       title: A Vindication of the Press
        date: None
       words: 10664
      flesch: 53
     summary: These are the Uses of Writings in the Church and the State, with Answers to such Objections as may be made against them, not to mention particularly in respect to the former, the Writings of the Fathers, and even of some Heathen Philosophers, such as _Seneca_, &c. And besides the valuable Performances of our most eminent Divines in all Ages, as Dr. _Taylor_, Bishop _Usher, Tillotson, Beveridge_ &c. and _ Westminster-Abbey_, and observe the indecent Behaviour of multitudes of Persons, who make those Sacred Places Assignations of Vice; if you are enclin'd to lash the Follies and Vanities of the fair Sex, retire to the Tea Table and the Theatre; if your Business be to compose a Sermon, or you are engag'd in Theological Studies, resort to _Child's_ Coffee-House in St. _Paul's_ Church-Yard; if you are desirous to depaint the Cheat and the Trickster, I recommend ye to the _Royal-Exchange_ and the Court End of the Town; and if you would write a Poem in imitation of _Rochester_, you need only go to the Hundreds of _Drury_, and you'll be sufficiently furnish'd with laudable Themes.
    keywords: age; author; church; criticism; defoe; essay; learning; literature; man; performances; persons; poetry; press; time; university; vindication; world; writing
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        item: #5 of 44
          id: 15718
      author: Bleyer, Willard Grosvenor
       title: How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers
        date: None
       words: 140434
      flesch: 69
     summary: We learn simple carpentry, as part of the course, so that we shall be able to make window boxes, flats, cold frames and other articles that we need. Thus, one Sunday paper will be found to contain articles on the latest political, sociological, and literary topics, while another deals almost exclusively with society leaders, actors and actresses, and other men and women whose recent experiences or adventures have brought them into prominence.
    keywords: american; article; attention; average; beginning; big; boy; boys; bureau; business; car; cents; chicken; children; city; college; cost; county; course; day; days; department; dollars; editor; end; example; experience; fact; factory; family; farm; feature; following; form; general; girls; good; half; hand; head; help; home; hours; house; human; idea; interest; job; labor; life; little; magazine; making; man; material; matter; means; men; methods; mind; money; morning; mosquito; mrs; need; new; new york; newspaper; night; number; office; order; papers; pay; people; persons; place; point; present; public; publication; purpose; readers; results; room; school; second; service; small; state; statement; stories; story; study; subject; success; sunday; system; things; thought; time; title; town; type; use; want; water; way; week; white; women; words; work; working; world; writer; writing; years; york
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        item: #6 of 44
          id: 15762
      author: Runciman, James
       title: Side Lights
        date: None
       words: 69804
      flesch: 67
     summary: The thing has been and is being done steadily by good men and women who defy prejudice and go to work in a vigorous practical way. Good men and bad men unite in saying that he was absolutely without a virtue; the shrewd, calculating Greville described him in words that burn; the great Duke, his chief subject, uses language of dry scorn--The king could only act the part of a gentleman for ten minutes at a time; and we find that the commonest satellites of the Court despised the wicked fribble who wore the crown of England.
    keywords: away; books; care; children; come; country; day; days; death; earth; end; england; english; fact; general; girl; good; heart; home; kind; know; lady; letter; life; literature; little; london; look; love; man; matter; means; men; mind; money; nature; new; night; people; pity; place; poor; pounds; power; public; race; round; runciman; school; sea; set; shrew; society; sorrow; sort; soul; talk; things; thought; time; way; wild; woman; words; work; world; writer; years
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        item: #7 of 44
          id: 2037
      author: Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)
       title: Novel Notes
        date: None
       words: 70403
      flesch: 83
     summary: He was shaped differently from other men. If I thought other men were like me I should be ashamed of being a man.
    keywords: amenda; brown; cat; day; days; dear; dog; door; ethelbertha; evening; eyes; face; friend; girl; good; half; hand; head; house; idea; jephson; knew; lady; life; look; macshaughnassy; man; matter; morning; mother; night; people; place; poor; room; round; saw; sir; story; thing; thought; time; want; way; wife; woman; work; world; young
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        item: #8 of 44
          id: 21755
      author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
       title: Personal Reminiscences in Book Making, and Some Short Stories
        date: None
       words: 53289
      flesch: 78
     summary: Gamblers use their free-wills, often to their own great damage and ruin; just as good men use their free-wills to their great advantage and happiness. Hence devolves upon every one the responsibility of putting and finding an answer to the question--How shall I make the best of life? And let me say here in passing that I venture to address young men on this subject, not because I conceive myself to be gifted with superior wisdom, but because, being an old man, I stand on the heights and vantage ground of Experience, and looking back, can see the rocks and shoals and quicksands in life's ocean, which have damaged and well-nigh wrecked myself.
    keywords: bell; boat; boy; captain; course; day; deep; dick; end; eyes; father; feet; fire; fish; god; good; half; hand; head; home; house; jan; jim; land; life; lifeboat; london; long; look; man; men; mind; moment; money; north; place; right; rock; room; round; sea; sir; thought; time; water; way; work; young
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        item: #9 of 44
          id: 2431
      author: Twain, Mark
       title: Is Shakespeare Dead? From My Autobiography
        date: None
       words: 21644
      flesch: 70
     summary: And on the few surviving steamboats--those lingering ghosts and remembrancers of great fleets that plied the big river in the beginning of my water-career--which is exactly as long ago as the whole invoice of the life-years of Shakespeare number--there are still findable two or three river-pilots who saw me do creditable things in those ancient days; and several white-headed engineers; and several roustabouts and mates; and several deck-hands who used to heave the lead for me and send up on the still night air the six--feet--_scant_! Also, that that man could not have been the Stratford Shakespeare--and _wasn't_.
    keywords: bacon; book; courts; day; evidence; fact; good; history; knowledge; law; lawyer; life; london; lord; man; person; plays; shakespeare; stratford; talk; things; time; trade; way; works; world; years
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        item: #10 of 44
          id: 2566
      author: Lang, Andrew
       title: How to Fail in Literature: A Lecture
        date: None
       words: 9363
      flesch: 69
     summary: In this way bad authors become the literary parents of worse authors. Advice on how to secure the reverse of success should not be given to young authors alone.
    keywords: authors; book; editor; failure; letters; literature; man; people; publisher; style; success; way; work; writing
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        item: #11 of 44
          id: 25971
      author: Sinclair, May
       title: The Creators: A Comedy
        date: None
       words: 160004
      flesch: 91
     summary: So immense was the separation between Jane Holland and Jane Brodrick. Then suddenly she was aware that she, Jane Brodrick, and this woman, Jane Holland, were inseparably and indestructibly one.
    keywords: book; brodrick; care; collett; course; day; dear; eyes; face; family; feet; genius; george; gertrude; good; hands; head; heart; henry; holland; house; hugh; jane; jinny; john; laura; left; life; little; look; love; mind; miss; moment; mrs; nicky; nina; owen; people; place; poor; prothero; right; room; rose; sir; talk; tanqueray; thing; thought; time; want; way; wife; woman; work
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        item: #12 of 44
          id: 26557
      author: Cushing, Charles Phelps
       title: If You Don't Write Fiction
        date: None
       words: 18710
      flesch: 72
     summary: Which is to say that novelists and magazine fiction writers are accused of becoming more concerned about how their stories will film than about how the manuscripts will grade as pieces of literature. Nearly any one can learn to compose newspaper copy at the keyboard, but not so many of us dare attempt to do magazine articles at the same high rate of speed.
    keywords: art; article; city; day; editor; experience; fiction; good; half; interest; lance; life; magazine; manuscript; market; material; men; new; newspaper; set; story; time; way; work; worth; writer; writing; york
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        item: #13 of 44
          id: 27485
      author: Smith, Francis Asbury
       title: The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant
        date: None
       words: 21009
      flesch: 60
     summary: The Introduction of Professor Thorndike to his Influence of Beaumont and Fletcher on Shakspere sufficiently shows the animus of his essay: he cites the libel of Greene, and intimates that it is an accusation of plagiarism which we have rejected, but which contains an element of truth worth keeping in mind; he repeats in positive words the charge of Professor Wendell that Shakspere began by imitating or revamping the work of others; that Titus Andronicus and Henry VI., so far as they are his, are certainly imitative of other plays of the time, and adds that Richard II. Professor Thorndike, for example, has shown with convincing probability that certain old plays concerning Robin Hood proved popular; a little later, Shakspere produced the woods and outlaws of 'As You Like It.'
    keywords: action; beaumont; characters; contention; cymbeline; date; drama; fletcher; greene; henry; imitation; king; love; marlowe; measure; parts; philaster; plays; professor; romances; shakspere; stage; thorndike; wendell; years
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        item: #14 of 44
          id: 27621
      author: Duchess
       title: How I write my novels
        date: None
       words: 1450
      flesch: 80
     summary: As a rule, too, I never give more time to my writing than two hours out of every day. These unsolicited outbursts of the mind are as the wild sprays sent heavenward at times by a calm and slumbering ocean--a promise of the power that reigns in the now quiet breast.
    keywords: mind; night; time
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        item: #15 of 44
          id: 27622
      author: Duchess
       title: The story of my first novel; How a novel is written
        date: None
       words: 1090
      flesch: 80
     summary: ===================================================================== [Transcriber's note: Mrs. Hungerford (Margaret Wolfe Hamilton) (1855?-1897) How a novel is written (from The Ladies' Home Journal vol. [Transcriber's note: Mrs. Hungerford (Margaret Wolfe Hamilton) (1855?-1897) The story of my first novel (from The Ladies' Home Journal vol.
    keywords: = =; novel
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        item: #16 of 44
          id: 29089
      author: Johnson, Jesse
       title: Testimony of the Sonnets as to the Authorship of the Shakespearean Plays and Poems
        date: None
       words: 18932
      flesch: 70
     summary: And conceding him that, why is not the situation fully satisfied by considering that he was the lesser, or one of the lesser, rather than the greater of the collaborators; and that his knowledge of the stage and his talent for conceiving proper dramatic effects or situations, made his labors valuable to the greater poet, aiding him to give to his works a dramatic form and movement which many other great poets have entirely failed to attain. Subsequently he regretfully pointed out how his patron's readiness to accept the homage of other poets seemed to be thrusting him from the enviable place of pre-eminence in his patron's esteem.
    keywords: age; author; beauty; boy; friend; lee; life; lines; love; man; patron; person; plays; poet; poetry; reading; shakespeare; sonnets; thou; time; work; years
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        item: #17 of 44
          id: 30908
      author: Hope, Noel
       title: The Bible in its Making: The most Wonderful Book in the World
        date: None
       words: 28723
      flesch: 81
     summary: The fact alone that the Word of God can be read to-day in 412 living languages proves clearly that it is no dead book; and when we remember that last year 5,000,000 new copies of the Bible were sent into the busy working world for men and women by one Society alone, we see how truly 'alive' it must be. For more than a thousand years God was calling the best and wisest men of the Jewish nation to write for His Book.
    keywords: bible; book; christ; city; day; days; god; greek; heathen; jerusalem; jews; king; law; life; lord; moses; people; read; testament; time; words; work; world; years
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        item: #18 of 44
          id: 31006
      author: Saunders, Frederick
       title: The Author's Printing and Publishing Assistant Comprising Explanations of the Process of Printing; Preparation and Calculation of Manuscripts; Choice of Paper, Type, Binding, Illustrations, Publishing, Advertising, &c.; with an Exemplification and Description of the Typographical Marks Used in the Correction of the Press
        date: None
       words: 14409
      flesch: 74
     summary: Stereotype Printing is thus a very valuable process, for works not liable to alteration, as Bibles, School Books, and other works of which large numbers are required, as it would be impossible to keep the moveable Types standing for such works, without a very great outlay of Capital.[22-*] Another mode of Printing, is that called LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTING, or PRINTING FROM STONE. Pica is the type usually employed in Printing works of History, Biography, Travels, &c., in the Demy octavo size; Small Pica, in Novels, Romances, &c., in the Post octavo size; and Long Primer, Poetry, in the Foolscap octavo size.
    keywords: author; engravings; esq; footnote; ink; letter; lines; manuscript; margin; number; page; paper; post 8vo; press; printing; process; proof; publishers; size; type; vols; words; work
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        item: #19 of 44
          id: 32328
      author: Erichsen, Hugo
       title: Methods of Authors
        date: None
       words: 39337
      flesch: 70
     summary: He is a hard worker, and, like Trollope, believes that there is nothing like a piece of shoemaker's wax on the seat of one's chair to encourage good literary work. She thinks that, under pressure, night work in journalism is often more brilliant than any other; but that it is exceptional.
    keywords: author; bed; book; breakfast; coffee; composition; day; desk; dinner; evening; german; good; habit; half; hand; hours; ink; labor; life; literary; manuscript; mind; morning; night; novel; novelist; o'clock; outline; paper; pen; poet; room; story; study; table; thought; time; way; words; work; working; writer; writing; years
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        item: #20 of 44
          id: 33103
      author: Coke, Desmond
       title: Helena Brett's Career
        date: None
       words: 63042
      flesch: 89
     summary: Helena Brett has never written anything, and Zoë Baskerville is dead--thank goodness! If poor old Hubert ever saw...!
    keywords: alison; book; brett; course; day; dear; geoffrey; girl; good; half; helena; hubert; hugh; husband; know; life; man; moment; mrs; new; old; people; read; right; ruth; sort; thing; thought; time; want; way; wife; woman; work; years
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        item: #21 of 44
          id: 33148
      author: Various
       title: My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome.
        date: None
       words: 77121
      flesch: 72
     summary: 'Have you seen what they say about your _Cornhill_ story?' By that time, I had written little books and little essays and short stories; and had got patted on the back and paid for them--though not enough to live upon.
    keywords: author; away; book; boy; course; day; days; dead; deal; dear; editor; experience; family; fiction; form; friend; good; half; hand; head; heart; house; idea; illustration; kind; left; life; literature; little; london; man; manuscript; men; mind; money; morning; new; night; novel; office; paper; people; place; press; public; publisher; reading; romance; room; saw; sea; set; stories; story; study; success; things; thought; time; title; volume; way; work; world; writer; writing; years; young
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        item: #22 of 44
          id: 3388
      author: Howells, William Dean
       title: The Man of Letters as a Man of Business
        date: None
       words: 12873
      flesch: 60
     summary: In view of this fact, so humiliating to an author in the presence of a nation of business men like ours, I do not know that I can establish the man of letters in the popular esteem as very much of a business man, after all. So long as this remains the case, we cannot expect the best business talent to go into literature, and the man of letters must keep his present low grade among business men.
    keywords: author; book; business; good; letters; literature; magazines; man; men; public; publisher; readers; thing; work
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        item: #23 of 44
          id: 34214
      author: Gayley, Charles Mills
       title: Francis Beaumont: Dramatist A Portrait, with Some Account of His Circle, Elizabethan and Jacobean, And of His Association with John Fletcher
        date: None
       words: 115185
      flesch: 66
     summary: I object, in the second place, to the grouping of the six plays said to constitute a distinctly new type of drama under the denomination dramatic romances of Beaumont _and_ _Cambridge English Classics_, edition of _Beaumont and Fletcher_, 244, 263-270, _et passim_ Camden, William, 137, 149, 178, 182 _Camden Miscellany, The_, 66 Campion, Father, 46 _Capricious Lady, The_, 377 _Captaine, The_, 98, 111, 176, 236, 240, 306, 378, 383 _
    keywords: act; amintor; art; author; authorship; beaumont; ben; blackfriars; brother; chapter; children; comedy; company; composition; countess; court; date; day; death; dieu; dramatic; dramatist; drayton; earl; edward; elizabeth; english; family; father; field; find; fletcher; folio; francis beaumont; friend; george; good; grace; hand; hater; henry; house; iii; inner; james; john beaumont; john fletcher; jonson; king; knight; lady; life; lines; little; london; lord; love; maides; man; march; marriage; massinger; master; men; new; philaster; plays; plot; poems; poet; poetry; quarto; queen; revels; richard; says; scenes; second; shakespeare; sir; sir john; sister; stage; style; temple; thee; thomas; thou; thy; time; tragedy; vaux; verse; way; wife; william; wit; woman; work; world; writing; years; young; | +; | john; | |
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        item: #24 of 44
          id: 34940
      author: Merwin, Henry Childs
       title: The Life of Bret Harte, with Some Account of the California Pioneers
        date: None
       words: 118547
      flesch: 68
     summary: In a letter to a relative she wrote: He reminded me a good deal of our old pirate and bandit friend, Trelawney, though the latter was an almost orientally dark-complexioned man, and Mr. Bret Harte was comparatively fair. The youngest daughter, only ten years old, told her sister, in reference to some conversation Froude and I had, that 'she feared' (this child) 'that Mr. Bret Harte was inclined to be sceptical!'
    keywords: account; american; author; beauty; boston; boy; bret harte; brett; business; california; california life; case; character; children; city; colonel; country; course; day; days; death; dollars; early; east; editor; england; english; example; eyes; fact; family; father; feeling; feet; find; following; form; francisco; friend; gambling; gold; good; half; hand; head; henry; home; house; human; humor; james; john; kind; left; letter; life; literary; literature; little; london; man; manner; men; miles; miners; mining; money; mother; mrs; nature; new; night; office; people; pioneer; place; poems; point; reader; river; sacramento; san; san francisco; self; sense; society; son; spanish; state; stories; story; street; style; thing; time; type; united; way; western; wife; women; work; world; writer; years; york; young
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        item: #25 of 44
          id: 36650
      author: Smedley, William T. (William Thomas)
       title: The Mystery of Francis Bacon
        date: None
       words: 58315
      flesch: 66
     summary: In 1679 was published Baconiana, or Certain Genuine Remains of Sir Francis Bacon, &c., by Bishop Tennison, but it contains no better account of his life. Sir Francis Bacon_.
    keywords: advancement; age; anthony; art; author; bacon; books; burghley; chapter; course; court; edition; emblem; england; english; following; france; francis bacon; french; god; good; greek; hand; history; john; knowledge; known; language; latin; learning; left; letter; life; light; literature; lord; lordship; man; men; mind; nature; page; period; philosophy; place; present; queen; read; second; shakespeare; sir; spedding; state; subject; suit; things; time; title; translation; truth; use; volume; words; work; world; years
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        item: #26 of 44
          id: 36837
      author: Klickmann, Flora
       title: The Lure of the Pen: A Book for Would-Be Authors
        date: None
       words: 61449
      flesch: 64
     summary: What is set down must not only be good work in itself, but it must suggest other good work as a completion. INDEX A Abbreviations to be avoided in verse, 247 Abstract qualities to be gauged, 25 Alexander, Mrs., _Burial of Moses_, 75 Allen, James Lane, and local colour, 176 Allingham, Wm., poem by, 170 Allusions, hackneyed, 155 Amateurs, what they need to cultivate and avoid, 47 Amateurs, two classes of, 139 Amateurs copying unawares, 203 Amateurs and marriage offers in stories, 209 Amateurs' lack of first-hand knowledge, 198 Ambiguity, avoid, 157 American writers and local colour, 174, 175 Ancient facts undesirable except in text-book, 149 _Angel Court_, Austin Dobson, 290 Anthologies, verse, 75, 76 Antiquated expressions, 52 Arnold, Matthew, 75 Article, settle object in writing it, 147 Articles that are not wanted, 151; big subjects to be avoided, 155; How to ----, editors overdone with, 154; which fail, 138; useful divisions, 136; ruled by form, 136; on subjects already dealt with, 153; study type of, in magazine you are writing for, 152; must be sent to editors in time, 150; must be topical, 150; starting in the middle, 147 Artist and detail, 100 Artist's fragments, an, 167 Artistic atmosphere, 178 Artistic training and literary first attempts, 4, 98-100 Atmosphere, healthy and otherwise, 181; as a time saver, 180 Atmospheric purpose of story writer, 89 Audience, settle on your, 126 Austen's, Jane, old-world atmosphere, 184 Author's aim to help readers God-ward, 293 Authors must have something in their heads to write down, 11 Authorship compared with dressmaking, 5, 7 B Baby prattle in amateur verse, 239 Barclay, Mrs., _White Ladies of Worcester_, 41; _
    keywords: amateur; article; atmosphere; author; book; course; day; editor; form; good; idea; interest; life; making; matter; mind; mss; need; new; order; paper; people; person; point; public; read; reader; reading; sidenote; stories; story; study; style; subject; things; thought; time; use; way; words; work; world; worth; writer; writing
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        item: #27 of 44
          id: 38887
      author: Anonymous
       title: How to Write a Novel: A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction
        date: None
       words: 36790
      flesch: 74
     summary: Lastly, there is the _Dramatic_ novel, where the chief feature is the influence of event on character, and of characters on each other. Briefly stated, my position is this: no teaching can produce good stories to tell, but it can increase the power of the telling, and change it from crude and ineffective methods to those which reach the apex of developed art.
    keywords: art; book; chapter; characters; course; day; effect; fact; fiction; good; half; human; idea; life; literature; man; men; narrative; new; novel; novelist; people; place; plot; point; question; reader; stories; story; style; success; thing; time; use; view; vol; way; words; work; writer; writing; | |
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        item: #28 of 44
          id: 42831
      author: Bates, Arlo
       title: Love in a Cloud: A Comedy in Filigree
        date: None
       words: 68231
      flesch: 84
     summary: She seated herself near Mrs. Croydon, over whose face during her remarks had flitted several expressions, none of them over-amiable, and watched the hostess fill her cup. Come, Mrs. Neligage, protested Bradish with an air of mild solicitation. Mrs. Croydon looked from the Count to Mrs. Neligage with an expression of mingled doubt and bewilderment.
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        item: #29 of 44
          id: 47424
      author: Morgan, Appleton
       title: The Shakespearean Myth: William Shakespeare and Circumstantial Evidence
        date: None
       words: 96735
      flesch: 67
     summary: Mr. William Shakespeare produced about a hundred less. He gives an account of his fellow-countyman, and, coming as it does, next to Dominie Ward's, nearer to the lifetime of William Shakespeare than any chronicle extant, (Malone admits it was not written later than 1680), we give it entire: Mr. William Shakespeare was born at Stratford-upon-Avon, in the county of Warwick.
    keywords: actor; author; authority; authorship; bacon; ben; book; case; copy; day; days; death; dramas; edition; elizabeth; english; evidence; fact; folio; genius; good; greene; hamlet; hand; henry; history; james; john; john shakespeare; jonson; king; knowledge; law; letter; life; like; line; literature; london; lord; malone; man; manager; manager shakespeare; matter; men; nature; new; note; original; page; plays; poet; question; record; robert; scene; school; shakespearean; sir; sonnets; sort; stage; stratford; testimony; theater; theory; thing; thomas; time; truth; verses; way; white; william shakespeare; wit; works; world; writing; years; young
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        item: #30 of 44
          id: 47425
      author: Durning-Lawrence, Edwin, Sir
       title: The Shakespeare Myth
        date: None
       words: 12057
      flesch: 71
     summary: A passport given to Bacon's brother Anthony in 1586 from the court of Navarre, is signed Biron. The Tempest, with Timon of Athens and Henry VIII., seems to be largely concerned with the story of Bacon's fall from his high offices in 1621, and Emile Montégut, writing in the Revue des Deux Mondes of August, 1865, says that the Tempest is evidently the author's literary testament.
    keywords: bacon; book; english; figure; folio; hand; hog; king; lines; page; plays; reader; shakespeare; title; william; words
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        item: #31 of 44
          id: 47455
      author: Cook, William Wallace
       title: The Fiction Factory Being the experience of a writer who, for twenty-two years, has kept a story-mill grinding successfully
        date: None
       words: 53430
      flesch: 77
     summary: I should say, Mr. Edwards, said the specialist, in a tone professionally sympathetic, that you have one chance in three to get well. To the reply that $10 a thousand was paid for good stories she made written response: Why, it takes me a week to write one story, and $10 for a thousand weeks' work looks so discouraging that I guess I'd better try something else.
    keywords: argosy; author; book; cent; chicago; city; company; day; editor; edwards; factory; fiction; good; harte; john; letter; library; line; magazine; man; manuscript; material; milton; milton edwards; new; page; paper; pay; perkins; place; publishers; read; rights; serial; stories; story; success; time; way; week; white; words; work; writer; writing; years; york; young
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        item: #32 of 44
          id: 49754
      author: Ellanby, Boyd
       title: What Do You Read?
        date: None
       words: 4698
      flesch: 87
     summary: Herbert Carre nibbled at his graying moustache. I just want--My name is Herbert Carre and I want to see Dr. Hartridge.
    keywords: carre; hartridge; herbert; lab; ludwig; machines; script
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        item: #33 of 44
          id: 51115
      author: Boucher, Anthony
       title: Transfer Point
        date: None
       words: 8086
      flesch: 84
     summary: It was a nasty plot Vyrko was involved in. And here Vyrko sat, methodically recording the destruction of mankind, once in a straight factual record, for the instruction of future readers (if any, he added wryly to himself), and again as a canto in that epic poem of Man which he never expected to complete, but for which he lived.
    keywords: agnoton; holt; kirth; labbery; lavra; manning; norbert; read; story; time; vyrko
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        item: #34 of 44
          id: 5383
      author: Churchill, Winston
       title: The Celebrity, Volume 01
        date: None
       words: 11874
      flesch: 79
     summary: Although it has been specifically written that promotion to a young man comes neither from the East nor the West, nor yet from the South, Mr. Cooke arrived from the East, and in the nick of time for me. Mr. Cooke, whom he represented, had large tracts of land in these parts, and Farrar likewise received an income from the state, whose legislature had at last opened its eyes to the timber depredations and had begun to buy up reserves.
    keywords: asquith; case; celebrity; client; cooke; farrar; fenelon; house; man; mohair; mrs; thought; time; town; way
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        item: #35 of 44
          id: 5384
      author: Churchill, Winston
       title: The Celebrity, Volume 02
        date: None
       words: 12602
      flesch: 84
     summary: After holding the Celebrity up to such unmeasured ridicule as she had done, ridicule not without a seasoning of contempt, it was difficult to believe Miss Thorn so inconsistent as to go alone with him to Indian rock; and she was not ignorant of Miss Trevor's experience. And at luncheon my seat was next to Miss Thorn's, while the Celebrity was placed at the right of Miss Trevor.
    keywords: allen; asquith; celebrity; cooke; crocker; farrar; good; man; miss; mohair; mrs; thorn; trevor
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        item: #36 of 44
          id: 5385
      author: Churchill, Winston
       title: The Celebrity, Volume 03
        date: None
       words: 15147
      flesch: 83
     summary: Mr. Trevor looked sternly over his shoulder at Mr. Cooke. Good God, said Mr. Cooke, whose contempt for Mr. Trevor was now infinite, you talk as if I were the governor of the state.
    keywords: allen; celebrity; client; cooke; crocker; detective; drew; farrar; man; maria; miss; mrs; thorn; thought; time; trevor
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        item: #37 of 44
          id: 5386
      author: Churchill, Winston
       title: The Celebrity, Volume 04
        date: None
       words: 18347
      flesch: 86
     summary: Mr. Cooke here is a gentleman, every inch of him, and so be you, Mr. Crocker. THE CELEBRITY By Winston Churchill VOLUME 4. CHAPTER XV I am convinced that Mr. Cooke possessed at least some of the qualities of a great general.
    keywords: allen; boat; cabin; celebrity; client; cooke; crocker; farrar; hand; harbor; man; maria; mccann; miss; sir; thorn; time; trevor
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        item: #38 of 44
          id: 54146
      author: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company
       title: A Few Suggestions to McGraw-Hill Authors. Details of manuscript preparation, typograpy, proof-reading and other matters in the production of manuscripts and books.
        date: None
       words: 6576
      flesch: 57
     summary: For over twenty years, prior to the formation of the McGraw-Hill Book Company, the several journals controlled by Mr. McGraw and Mr. Hill (now published by the McGraw-Hill Company, Inc., a separate organization) had been producing books in their special fields; but the publication of technical books had not been brought to the high standard of technical journals. They are the natural resources which simplified the problems of our early years and made possible our rapid development and growth, until today, by the application of the same editorial standards and marketing methods, in broader fields, we are able to offer to the author of technical books a highly developed machinery of publication and distribution.
    keywords: author; book; corrections; illustrations; manuscript; page; proofs; publisher; text
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        item: #39 of 44
          id: 61625
      author: None
       title: Fiction Writers on Fiction Writing Advice, opinions and a statement of their own working methods by more than one hundred authors
        date: None
       words: 151042
      flesch: 77
     summary: Reading stories written by others often suggests stories or reminiscences of my own; but in these cases I think the authorship is defective, because with a really great writer I get lost in the book. Reading stories, the keeping of my imagination alert depends on the stimuli--the art of the author.
    keywords: = a.; = anne; = arthur; = e.; = eugene; = frederick; = g.; = george; = h.; = j.; = joseph; = l.; = r.; = robert; = t.; = talbot; = walter; = william; action; answers; author; beginner; believe; book; case; character; classics; color; course; description; end; experience; fact; feel; fiction; fiction writing; geometry; good; human; idea; imagination; interest; life; man; matter; mind; people; person; pictures; plot; question; read; reader; reading; real; revise; sense; setting; situation; start; stock; stories; story; story writing; style; technique; things; thought; time; try; typewriter; use; want; way; words; work; write; writers; years; yes
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        item: #40 of 44
          id: 61859
      author: Bond, Nelson S.
       title: The Ultimate Salient
        date: None
       words: 21068
      flesch: 89
     summary: You've heard of Dr. Mallory? Thomas Mallory? And there was a faint, insane possibility that Dr. Mallory had a 'plan'--an invention, maybe--that would enable us to form the nucleus of a new army that, reorganized, would sweep the invaders from our land....
    keywords: army; brian; danny; day; doctor; door; earth; eyes; face; house; krassner; mallory; man; maureen; men; moment; o'shea; place; ship; story; time; toties; voice; war; way; wilson; years
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        item: #41 of 44
          id: 8207
      author: Bacon, Delia Salter
       title: The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
        date: None
       words: 249680
      flesch: 66
     summary: we are given to understand that is going to be found _new_ in them. And, therefore, _silence_ is to them not only a countenance of respect and gravity, but very often of good profit and policy too; for, Megabysus going to see _Apelles_ in his _painting_ room, stood a great while without speaking a word, and at last began to talk of his paintings, for which he received this rude reproof.
    keywords: account; advancement; ages; art; arts; author; book; caesar; case; common; conditions; cor; course; criticism; cure; day; doctrine; elizabethan; end; english; eye; eyes; fact; field; forces; form; general; genius; god; good; government; great; ground; hand; hath; head; heart; hero; history; human; inquiry; instances; kind; king; know; knowledge; law; laws; learning; leave; letters; life; light; living; long; look; lord; makes; man; manner; matter; means; men; method; mind; modern; nature; need; new; opinion; order; particular; people; person; philosophy; place; play; poet; poetic; point; poor; power; practice; present; principle; purpose; question; reader; reason; rome; rule; school; science; second; secret; sense; shall; sir; social; speech; state; subject; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; tradition; truth; universal; use; want; war; way; weal; words; work; world
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        item: #42 of 44
          id: 8489
      author: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
       title: Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
        date: None
       words: 108370
      flesch: 73
     summary: I schemed it at twenty-five; but, alas! _venturum expectat_. _April_ 29. 1832. He was, indeed, to my observation, more distinguished from other great men of letters by his moral thirst after the Truth--the ideal truth--in his own mind, than by his merely intellectual qualifications.
    keywords: account; april; august; believe; body; book; case; character; christian; church; coleridge; commons; country; course; day; death; difference; doubt; effect; end; england; english; fact; faith; father; feeling; find; fine; footnote; french; general; genius; german; god; good; government; greek; half; hand; head; heart; high; history; house; idea; interest; jews; john; july; june; king; knowledge; language; latin; law; life; logic; lord; love; man; manner; mean; men; milton; mind; modern; moral; national; nature; new; object; parts; passage; paul; people; philosophy; place; poet; poetry; point; power; present; principles; property; question; read; real; reason; religion; right; roman; sense; shakspeare; sir; sort; spirit; state; style; subject; system; thing; thought; time; truth; understanding; verse; way; women; words; work; world; years; young
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        item: #43 of 44
          id: 8908
      author: Killen, W. D. (William Dool)
       title: The Ignatian Epistles Entirely Spurious: A Reply to the Right Rev. Dr. Lightfoot
        date: None
       words: 24176
      flesch: 67
     summary: Dr. Lightfoot makes a most unguarded statement as to the Ignatian Epistles--The letter of Polycarp better authenticated--The date assigned for the martyrdom of Ignatius--The date of Polycarp's Epistle--Written in the reign of Marcus Aurelius--Not written in the reign of Trajan--The Epistle of Polycarp has no reference to Ignatius of Antioch--It refers to another Ignatius of another age and country--It was written at a time of persecution--The postscript to the letter of Polycarp quite misunderstood--What is meant by letters being carried to Syria--Psyria and Syria, two islands in the Aegaean Sea--The errors of transcribers of the postscript--The true meaning of the postscript--What has led to the mistake as to the claims of the Ignatian Epistles--The continued popularity of these Epistles among High Churchmen. [47:2] He subsequently informs us that Hyginus dying _after the fourth year of his office,_ was succeeded by Pius; and he then adds that Pius dying at Rome, in the _fifteenth_ year of his episcopate, was succeeded by Anicetus.
    keywords: a.d; bishop; century; christian; church; epistles; evidence; god; ignatian; ignatius; letters; lightfoot; martyrdom; philippians; polycarp; rome; syria; time; vol; years
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        item: #44 of 44
          id: 9847
      author: Durning-Lawrence, Edwin, Sir
       title: Bacon is Shake-Speare Together with a Reprint of Bacon's Promus of Formularies and Elegancies
        date: None
       words: 45676
      flesch: 77
     summary: The present Bust, enlarged from Plate IV. VII. Reduced facsimile of the title page of the first folio edition of Mr. William Shakespeare's plays, published in 1623. The special point is that in what is known as the authentic portrait of William Shakespeare, which appears in the celebrated first folio edition, published in 1623, a remarkable sartorial puzzle is apparent.
    keywords: actor; answer; arms; author; avon; bacon; ben; bonum; book; bust; chapter; clown; coat; contemporary; cum; doe; edition; english; est; facsimile; fact; fait; figure; folio; form; francis; francis bacon; gentleman; god; good; great; greek; hand; hath; haue; head; heading; honorificabilitudinitatibus; iii; illustration; john; jonson; king; knowledge; labor; latin; law; lee; left; les; letters; life; line; london; lord; loues; malum; man; mask; matter; meaning; means; monument; neuer; non; note; number; order; original; page; pas; pen; picture; plate; plays; poet; point; portion; portrait; present; promus; purpose; quae; quam; quarto; que; question; qui; quis; quod; read; reader; reference; richard; right; sed; shakespeare; shakespeare folio; shakespeare plays; shewn; sidney; signatures; sir; size; stratford; sum; thee; thou; thy; time; title page; upside; vol; wallace; way; william; william shakespeare; word; works; writer; writing; y'e; years; yll; yow
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