"How I did it," ([c1922])

Page scan 00033 from "How I did it,"

Record Details:

Title:
"How I did it,"
Date:
[c1922]
Publisher:
Los Angeles, Calif. : The Whittingham press
Volume:
"How I did it,"
Leaf #:
00033
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
University of California Libraries
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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"How I Did It" surrounds himself with the greatest privacy while he is working on a script. He doesn't dash out a story overnight. On the other hand, he spends days and weeks, even months, concentrating on his subject, in order that he may put into his story the best of his creative ability. He has found that it pays, and whereas he at one time received twenty-five dollars for a story, today he is paid from one thousand to ten thousand dollars for his script. In the future he will probably re- ceive even more. His work is entirely differ- ent from that of the dramatist, novelist and short story writer. The screen brought op- portunity to writers who had been handi- capped in the past because there was no mar- ket for their product. There were many writers capable of creating big dramatic plots and yet were unable to sell them because they had no literary style. If they happened to have style, it was not attractive enough to command the attention of magazine editors or book publishers. They might have been ex- pert in handling narrative or descriptive mat- ter, but inefficient when it came to the treat- 12