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358 IX CONCLUSION counts or can ever count. Some of the world's greatest tliinkers have spent the better half of their lives in study and preparation for their magnum opus. Surely you can give a year or two to the mas- tery of a profession that by the end of such a time should put^ you in possession of a certain income. You must work and study to prac- tice the law, medicine or any other profession. You must serve your apprenticeship at any trade or craft. In photoplay alone, it would seem, the novice expects and demands instant and complete success. 10. It is to be presumed that this work alone will not constitute your library, though it is the author's hope that it will ever be your chief guide. You should read other authors on photoplay, on drama form, on literary construction and expression. Some books you will find good. Others will be misleading and confusing. De- cide for yourself what is good. Do not permit yourself to lose sight of the essential in a mass of detail. If one author advises the use of the word '"leader" and another decides in favor of "sub-title," do not waste time in argument. You are told both are employed. Use that which seems to you to be best. Do not permit such slight vari- ations in nomenclature to "confuse you. All books worthy of the name offer the same general teaching. The rest is unimportant. 11. Form is your servant and riot your master. Master form and be not mastered by it. Select for yourself the form that seems to you to be the best. Then give your attention to plot. 12. And in conclusion this author would offer the words of Gif- ford Pinchot that have been true since time began: One of the most difficult things to do in any profession which involves drudgery (and I take it that no profession which does not involve drudgery is worth the attention of a man) is to look beyond the daily routine to the things which that routine is intended to assist in accomplishing.