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56 HEART INTEREST plot. The rest is done from the inside, but the man who can write good plots will not long be kept on the outside. (2.VI:6) (3.IV:3 XXX :6) (4.LI:9-10) (P.XLVIII :26) (10. 111:9; (12.XXIV:31) (14.XX:6j U5.XLV1II :37). CHAPTER XVIII HEART INTEREST NO term is more misunderstood by the beginner than heart interest. The student is told that heart interest stories are most in demand and at once he begins to load his stories with marriage and giving in marriage, not realizing that this is not heart but love interest. 2. Heart interest is that quality in a story that excites the kindly emotions. It appeals to the heart and not to the head. It is the deft touch of the practiced hand that invests the characters with a personality that engages our interest and causes us, through that in- terest, to become absorbed in their adventures and engrossed in the outcome of their small affairs. There need be no trace of sex-love in a heart interest story. Some of the best heart interest stories pro- duced have contained not the slightest allusion to the love of man for a woman. 3. Take, for an example, the threadbare theme of the old mother from the country who visits her city son. She finds that he has grown away from her and the homely ways she represents. He has married a rich wife; he moves in society and he is ashamed of the rustic and uncouth old woman whose sacrifices and privations enabled him to obtain the education that procured his business and social advance- ment. He tries to hide her from his friends and she, understanding, returns to her empty, cheerless life "back home." Properly told—■ and it has been well told dozens of time in film—there is more grip, more appeal, to this than to the story of the wife w^ho grows above her husband's social sphere, though the two themes are by no means unlike. In this latter theme there is the ever-present feeling that perhaps the husband is to blame rather than his wife; that he is at fault in not having kept pace with her. There is the conviction that if he loved her well enough he would have made some effort to keep her instead of letting her go away. Here, in many instances, heart interest does not develop because the husband does not seem to be a person deserving of the sympathy we are asked by the author to lavish upon him. If he cannot hold his wife's love, he is a rather stu- pid sort of ass in whom we cannot become interested. On the other hand the mother, lonely in her old age. is a pathetic figure because it is through no fault of her own that her boy drifted away from her It is a part of the cross mothers bear that they bring their children