How to Write Photo-Plays (1915)

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HOW TO WRITE PHOTO PLAYS 85 treated his subject. As a writer gains experience, he is able to judge just how well he has done his own work with a little more accuracy, and it is because of this, doubtless, that the beginner feels he is out in the cold. The wise writer, no matter how long he has been in the game, pays no attention to such "feelings" but goes right ahead and does his work to the very best of his ability, thinking out, in his own way, every difficulty which arises, and injecting his own personality into every typewriter line. That is really the only way a beginner can hope to cease being a beginner, and even then there is much between him and success — the reward is worth the effort. SAVING POSTAGE. We wonder how many of our readers are interested in the postage-expense-saving question ? Here is one way to cut it down : When your present batch of scripts are returned — one by one, of course — take each and look it over carefully. Study it and compare it to all the screened pictures you have seen lately. Is it worthy of consideration? Is it fresh and strong enough to make an editor select it as acceptable from among a hundred others ? If you can truthfully answer "yes" to those two questions, send the script along on its travels, and it may bring back a check. If you believe in your heart that your answer to either of them should be "no," however, set the script aside for a time and do not waste postage sending it out. Do not destroy the script, for you may