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TOOLS OF THE TRADE 25 fiction authors use paper 8^ by $ l / 2 but this is not good for scripts . The usual commercial note and the legal &% by 13 are equally bad and the 8 by 10^2 looks cheap and "skimpy." Until you need a lot of paper it is better to get it by the box of 500 sheets, but when you get fairly into the writing of scripts, it will pay you to go to some paper warehouse and order a full ream to be cut for you. The saving will be 25 or 30%. Do not get heavier than twenty pound paper because a heavier paper will increase your postage bills and stamps are the costliest item at best. Do not use lighter because you will not get a paper that will stand handling. No paper should be so thin that when one sheet is laid on top of a second, the writing on the second shows through. The paper must be opaque or the editor will have trouble reading it and is inclined to return it unread. To use "onion skin" or other tissues is the height of foolish- ness. These tissues are made for use where a large number of carbons must be done at one writing. Some beginners use it to save postage, but there is no saving effected where your scripts are not read. Onion skin should never be allowed in the work- shop of the author. For carbon copies get the carbon second sheets. This paper is thin but since it is purely for home use it does not matter. It will cost from forty cents for five hundred sheets down to about twenty. It is best to get a yellow or manila paper for your car- bons, then if you are careful to face your carbon to the colored paper you can never get your carbon in wrong. This seems a slight matter, but it is one of the little tricks that will save time and trouble. You will need carbon paper to match your carbon sheets. Some papers require a soft carbon paper and others work better with the hard finish. Get a couple of sheets of each to test and buy in larger quantities later on. If you make more than two carbon copies you will have to use the soft carbon paper for the lower sheets in the pack, but it is not probable that you will make more than a single carbon. Get two sizes of envelopes, known to the trade as No. 10 and n, unless you can find a ten and a half. Do not use white en- velopes. These look nicer, but unless you get an expensive grade of bond paper envelope or use the costly cloth lined envelopes, the white paper should not be used. The powerful bleaching agents employed to get the white rots the paper and the envelope does not hold together in the mail as well as a manila or craft paper. These latter range in price all the way from thirty to sixty cents a hundred.