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24 FEEDING THE IMAGIXATIOX course of the Pennsylvania Station in New York ahead of your train time, note how other people say good-bye. You may never write a story set in that station, but Jim and Millie, at a flag station in Ari- zona, will say good-bye in much the same way. Your young people must part. You bring in review all the partings you can recollect and select and improve the one most suitable. The setting is changed, but human nature is much tlie same the world over. Make life a book I you are constantly reading and you will learn much. 10. Most advisers on writing strongly favor the taking of notes. Recollec tion, properly trained, is much better, but a note bofii^ can be made h'elpful if it is not made too complex, but those who have the note-taking habit are prone to make it complex to a point where utility becomes lost in a matter of sub-division. 11. A note book may range all the way from a shoebox half fulJ of newspaper clippings and penciled memoranda to an elaborate form of loose leaf or card catalogue. As a general thing the loose, leaf or card form is the best, since it enables you to roughly classify your clippings and ideas, but roughly means that and not the Dewey deci- j mal system. There is danger that you will presently develop into a I cataloguer instead of an author. 12. Not everything should be noted in the book, but only the most jLOvel and strongly suggestive ideas. There should be a division for titles, and into this should go everything that even looks like a sug- gestion for a good title. Try at the time of entry to translate the old into the new. You may think of a situation wherein a man marries his own mother. If you know that this has been done before, change the suggestion to read that the young man elopes wnth his prospective mother-in-law when he thinks he is eloping with the girl of his choice. When you find that this, too, has been used change once- more so that the youth elopes with his pretty step-mother because his plans and hers become crossed. He saves his father disgrace and a broken home and shows her the folly of her intended action. Now through imagination you have a new plot factor. 13. For the reason that any idea is flexible and can be used as comedy or drama, do not classify your sheets by dramatic classifica- tion. You are too apt to lose for a comedy what you have filed under drama or vice versa. The idea as above started as drama, was turned to comedy and turned back to drama of a lighter type. This could not be done once a story was entered by class. 14. The chief value of the note book is as a suggestion maker. Each entry of any value is a plot in embryo if only you can hatch it out and by looking over the entries when inspiration flags you may freshen your thought and get the start you need. Here, rather than as a supply of detail of manners and customs, your book or catalogue will be of real value. The minor incidents should be kept so freshly in mind that you will not need to refer to memoranda. (l.Vn:10) f6.XT:10) (12.VII:8) (13.LXV:29) (H.XXIII: 15 J.