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HOW TO STUDY 149 form to your own ideas with the intention of selling your product. In their proper chapters the various processes of plot formation and development are described in detail. Work along those lines unless you chance upon a method that suits you better. Do not trust too much to the criticism of your friends. They mean well, but they may not know, and the possession of college degrees is no evidence of ability to criticize photoplay. One of the worst scripts that ever came under the observation of this writer was the work of a professor of English literature in one of the largest colleges of the country. His knowledge of litera- ture was profound, his English was classical in its purity, but he did not know photoplay. The minister, the teacher, the news- paper man and the lawyer may each be learned in his profession and yet their opinion of your manuscript be infinitely less worth while than the judgment of the grammar school boy who is an ardent "fan." If you have made proper advance you are now able to visualize your action, to turn the printed word into motion, but you have this one drawback. You know the story you have written, and you cannot be certain that you have put all of the story into the plot of action. You may read it a dozen times and each time supply some missing point from your memory of the story and think it is in the script. You know that John does this because of some other action. You do not realize that the explanatory action is missing. Get someone to go over it for you. Encourage them to ask questions and do not grow angry if they do. Write as much as you can, but do not try to market all you write. Send out only the best, retaining the rest to work over. If you cannot better a story by editing and revision, lay it aside until you have done at least two others and the incidents of the first are less clear in your mind. Now read your synopsis and 1 mentally plot it afresh, writing the new action without reference to the old. Now compare the two. You are apt to find some improvement. If you keep at it long enough you will get the story right in time. As you study and learn from your failures you will come to find that sometimes the story may be all right but the handling is wrong. At times you will find that to give the most important position to the woman instead of the man or vice versa, will be to give the story the right twist. Again you may find that your hero is a doctor instead of a lawyer, or perhaps a clerk instead of his employer. One story was rejected eight times but sold the ninth because on the last trip the hero was an insurance agent instead of a theatrical manager. The theatrical manager did not fit into the rest of the story. The insurance agent did.