Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Dec 1920)

.^ >1ELENE CHADWICK CLARA WILLIAMS . LOUISE FAZENDA RUTH ROLAND RUTH STONEHOUSE ' MAY ALLISON In "The Wonder Book for Writers," which wc will send to you ABSOLUTELY FREE, these famous Movie Stars point out the easiest way to turn your ideas into stories and photoplays and become a successful writer. Millions of People Can Write Stories and Photoplays and Dorit Know It/ THIS is the startling assertion recently made by one of the highest paid writers in the world. Is his astonishing statement true? Canit be possible there are countless thousands of people yearning to write, who really can and simply haven't found it out? Well, come to think of it, most anybody can tell a story. Why can't most anybody write a story? Why is writing supposed to be a rare gift that few possess? Isn't this only another of the Mistaken Ideas the past has handed down to us? Yesterday nobody dreamed man could fly. 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People rarely learn ^ to write at schools. They may get the principles there, but they really learn to write from the great, wide, open, boundless Book of Humanity ! ^^Kg^^'^i Yes, seething all around you, every day, every HlBlBUHittHI^HJIHiB Al hour, every minute, in the whirling vortex — the ;HBA f n^^^^^TpSP^BBri flotsam and jetsam of Life — even in your own BaBH^^^Ui^M^ p ^/ ^ fidiiB ^ki\ home, at work or play, are endless incidents for stories and plays — a wealth of material, a world of things happening. Every one of these has the seed of a story or play in it. Think! If you went to a fire, or saw an accident, you could come home and tell the folks all about it. Un ■»■■■■■■■■■■««■■■■■■■-■■■■■■■■■ consciously you would describe it all very realis J .pjjj. AUTHORS' PRESS. Dept. 186, Auburn, N. Y. ticallv. 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