Picture Play Magazine (Sep 1921 - Feb 1922)

Advertising Section 11 In "The Wonder Book for Writers," which we 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 oP People Can ^Viite Stories and Photoplays and Dorit Know It / THIS is the startling assurtiun recently made by one of the liisbest paid writers in the world. Is his astonishin^j; slateuieut true? Can it he possihle there are countless thousands of people yearning to write, \Yho really can and simply haven't jiiiniiJ if aiil? Well, come to thin!; of it, most anybody can icll a story. Why can't most jinyhody write a story? "Why is writing supposed to be a rare gift that few possess? isn't this only another of the Mistalien Ideas the jiast has handed down to us? Yeslerday nol>ody dreamed man could fly. To-day he dives lil;e a swallow ten thousand feet above tlie cnrlh and laughs down at the tiny mortal atoms of his fellow-men below ! So yesterday's "impossibility" is a reality to-day. "The time will come," writes the same autliority, "when millions of people will be writers — there will lie countless thousands of playwrights, novelists, scenario, magazine and newspaper writers — they are coming, coming — a whole new world of them !" And do you know what tliese writers-to-be are doing now? Why, they are the men — armies of them — young and old, now doing mere clerical work in offices, keeping books, selling merchandise, or even driving trucks, running elevators, street cars, waiting on tables, working at barber chairs, following the plow, or teaching schools in the rural districts ; and women, young and old, by scores, now pounding t y p e writers, or standing beliind counters, or running spindles in factories, bending over sewing machines, or doing housework. Yes — you may laugh — but these arc The Writers of Tomorrow. For writing isn't only for geniuses as most people think. Don't i/riu hclirre the Cvpntor r/ave j/nii a stnrii-irritinr/ in cult ji j II fit rift He did the rireafpat inrifer? Only maylie vou are simply "bluffed" bv the LETTERS LIKE THIS ARE POURING IN I "I wouldn't take a million dollar! for it."-MAEY WATSON. Fairuont. W. Va. "It is worth its woieht In gold. " — G. M0CKWIT2, New Castij£. W*3H. "Every obstacle that menaces ■access can be mastered throosh this simple bat thorough system.' ' M RS . OLIVE MICHAUX, CHABLEBOl. Pa. "It contains a Bold mine of Talnable saeKestions. " — LBNA BAILEY. Ut. Veenon, III. *'I can only say that I am amazed that it is possible to set forth the principles of short Btory and photoplay writing in ench a clear, concise manner." -GORDO>i MATHEWS, MONTEEAL, Can. "I received yoar Irvlntf System some time azo. It Is the most remarkable thins I have ever seen. Mr. Irvinir certainly has made story ana play wrltin* ■mazin^'y simple and easy."-ALFBED HOETO. Niaoaea Falls. N. T. "Of all the compositions I have read on this subject, 1 find yours the most helpful to asnirins authors." HAZEL SIMPSON N A Y L O R . LITERARY EDITOE, Motion PicnmE Magazine. "With this volume before him. the veriest novice should be able to build stories or photoplays that will find a ready mariset. The best treatise of its kind I have encountered in 24 years of newspaper and literary work." — n PIERCE WELLER. HanAGiNO EDrroE. The BinghampTON Press. '■'When I first saw your ad I was working In a shop for a week. Always having worked with my baods, i doubted my ability to make money with my brain. So it was with much skepticism that 1 sent for your Easy Method of Writing When the System arrived, I carefully etndled It eveninga after work. Within ■ month 1 had completed two Slays, one of which sold forSfiOO, ^e other for $450. i unhesitatingly say that I owe It all to cn* Irving Sy»tem."-HELEN KIN DON, ATLANTIC CTTT. H.J. tliought that you "haven't the gift." Many people are simply afraid to try. Or if they do try, and their first efforts don't satisfy, they simply give up in despair, and that ends it. They're through. They never try again. Yet if, by some lucky chance, they had first learned the simple rules of writing, and then given the imagination free rein, they might have astonished the world ! Bt'T two things are essential in order to become a writer. First, to learn the ordinary principles of writing. Second, to learn to exercise your faculty of Thinking. By exercising a thing you develop it. Your Imagination is sometliing like j'our right arm. The more you use it the stronger it gets. The principles of writing are no more complex than the principles of spelling, arithmetic, or any other simple thing that anybody knows. Writers learn to piece together a story as easily as a child sets up a miniature house with his toy blocks. It is amazingly easy after the mind grasps the simple "know how." A little study, a little patience, a little confidence, and the thing that looks hard often turns out to be just as easy as it seemed difficult. Thousands of people imagine they need a fine education in order to write. Nothing is farther from the truth. Many of the greatest writers were the poorest scholars. People rarely learn to write at schools. They may get the principles there, but they reallij learn to tcrite from the great, wide, open, boundless Book of Humanity ! Yes. seething all around you, every day, every hour, every minute, in the whirling vortex — the flotsam and jetsam of Life — even in your own 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 homo and tell the folks all about it. ITnconsciously you would describe it all very realistically. And if somebody stood by and wrote down exactly what you sairl. you might be amazed to find your story would sound just as interesting as many you've read in magazines or seen on the screen. Now, you will naturally say, "Well, if Writing is as simple as you say it is, why can't / learn to write?" Who saijs you can't? LISTEN! A wonderful FREE book has recently been written on this very subject— a book that tells all about the Irving System — a Startling New Easy Method of Writing Stories and Photoplays. This amazing book, called "The Woinler Bool for Writers." shows how easily stories and plays are conceived, written, perfected, sold. How many who don't dream they can write, suddenly find it out. How the Scenario Kings and the Story Queens live and work. How bright men and women, without any special experience, learn to their own amazement that their simplest Ideas may furnish brilliant nlots for Plnvs and Stories. How one's own Imagination may provide an endless gold-mine of Ideas that bring Happj' Success and Handsome Cash Royalties. How new writers get their names into print. How to tell if you ARE a writer. How to develop your "story fancy," weave clever word-pictures and unique, thrilling, realistic plots. How your friends may be your worst judges. How to avoid discouragement and the pitfalls of Failure. How to WIN ! This surprising l)ool( is ABSOLUTELY FREE. Simply send 10 cents in U. S. coin or stamps to cover cost of packing, addressing and mailins: this boolt. No further charge. No obligation. TOUK copy is waiting for you. Write for it NOW. GET IT. IT'S TOURS. Tlien you can pour your uiiole soul into this magic new enchantment that has come into your life — story and play writing. Tlie lure of it, tlie love of it, the luxury of it will fill your wasted liours and dull moments with profit and pleasure. You will have this noble, absorbing, money mailing new profession! 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