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Timebinder, v. 2, issue 2, whole no. 6, Spring 1946
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expression. Why, then, have i not sold? looking honestly into the matter, I find that the main reason, as nearly as i can tell, is because i am too "sot" in my opinions as to HOW my stories should be written. I want too much to do it MY way, and not he way editors want it done. When i get what is, to me, the proper "feel" of a story, it must be written that way and only that way. But editors have a certain style of writing, a certain "slant", in mind for their mag, and insist that it must be done their way. Knowing this, why don't i change? A simple question, but one very hard to answer. It may be stubbornness; it may be inability; it may be mental laziness. I honestly don't know, although i think that i try to do it as it should be done. I do know that i have tried to "slant" my stories to the editor's wishes, but as yet without success. I do know that i have good story ideas, for i have given a number of my ideas to authors who have successfully used them. I know that i have fairly good plot twists; that i have quite a good sense of continuity. I admit to a failing in characterization and dialog to some extent. I tend too much to make all of my characters just like myself (egotist!); my conversations are usually too stilted. I know that those who read my stories, even the editors, usually enjoy them, but that they do not feel them good enough to print. I know that i greatly enjoy writing them, and would love writing as a life-vocation. I do know that hubdreds of people have greatly enjoyed and found pleasure in my poetry and verses, for they have said so. I am "almost" a writer. I love music. I was for years a musician in the U.S.Navy, and have played with various civic bands and orchestras. I was quite a good drummer, having a perfect sense of rhythm. i used many of the tricks that the "skin-beaters" of today are praised for using. But i was never a great musician; i never fashioned a name for myself as a player, except in a limited circle. I have had some good "tune" ideas, and have composed several little pieces, including two marches. But i had to have a better musician orchestrate them for me; and i never had one of them published, although they were played many time by bands of wich i was member. I was "almost" a musician. -4-
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expression. Why, then, have i not sold? looking honestly into the matter, I find that the main reason, as nearly as i can tell, is because i am too "sot" in my opinions as to HOW my stories should be written. I want too much to do it MY way, and not he way editors want it done. When i get what is, to me, the proper "feel" of a story, it must be written that way and only that way. But editors have a certain style of writing, a certain "slant", in mind for their mag, and insist that it must be done their way. Knowing this, why don't i change? A simple question, but one very hard to answer. It may be stubbornness; it may be inability; it may be mental laziness. I honestly don't know, although i think that i try to do it as it should be done. I do know that i have tried to "slant" my stories to the editor's wishes, but as yet without success. I do know that i have good story ideas, for i have given a number of my ideas to authors who have successfully used them. I know that i have fairly good plot twists; that i have quite a good sense of continuity. I admit to a failing in characterization and dialog to some extent. I tend too much to make all of my characters just like myself (egotist!); my conversations are usually too stilted. I know that those who read my stories, even the editors, usually enjoy them, but that they do not feel them good enough to print. I know that i greatly enjoy writing them, and would love writing as a life-vocation. I do know that hubdreds of people have greatly enjoyed and found pleasure in my poetry and verses, for they have said so. I am "almost" a writer. I love music. I was for years a musician in the U.S.Navy, and have played with various civic bands and orchestras. I was quite a good drummer, having a perfect sense of rhythm. i used many of the tricks that the "skin-beaters" of today are praised for using. But i was never a great musician; i never fashioned a name for myself as a player, except in a limited circle. I have had some good "tune" ideas, and have composed several little pieces, including two marches. But i had to have a better musician orchestrate them for me; and i never had one of them published, although they were played many time by bands of wich i was member. I was "almost" a musician. -4-
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