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

Page scan 000152 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 #:
000152
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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Persistency job, and about 7000 miles from New York. However, the company had been kind enough not to leave me stranded, and cabled me enough money to return to New York, if I cared to come back; if I didn't, they weren't particularly interested. Arriving in San Francisco, I decided that I would run down to Los Angeles and see "how the movies are made." I did. I liked the place. In fact, I liked it so much that the first thing I knew I had spent my carfare. I was a stranger in a strange land, and decided about the best thing for me to do would be to write some stories, sell them, and then go on to New York. All of which was easier said than done. So, I started to write. And, the interesting part of it is, that I didn't attempt to write scenarios; it never occurred to me to do so. I was going to write fiction stories, and I was only 3400 miles from the place where they buy such things! At the time I made the resolution that I would write, I had no idea what I would write about. In fact, with the exception of 99