88 ways to make money by writing
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| This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...set up the copy to catch the weekly edition, but as he was transforming it to the imposing stone he dropped the form, pieing the type. He went home, determined that he would sell the paper, even if he had to give it away, and so told his wife. "What will you do for a living?" she asked. "Write," he answered. His wife, mindful of what his literary efforts had been bringing in, went to bed in tears, but in spite of her fears and protestations the paper was sold, sold being used technically rather than literally. Stories, articles, descriptions he wrote, the greater part of his checks coming from David C. Cook Publishing Company, Elgin, 111., which remunerates at the rate of a quarter of a cent a word. In telling "How to Get a Choir to Practice on Time," or "How We Paid Our Pastor's Salary With a Pumpkin Sale," he made the words go as far as he thought consistent with the policy of the publications, always remembering that the current rate for adjectives was a quarter of a cent each. But even though depending on Elgin for his bread and butter, he kept hope and looked ahead. He was not content to get the choir out on time; he wanted to write fiction. After the grocer had been appeased he would give himself over to a literary effort of the first magnitude. It usually came back, but the next time he tried only the harder. He began clumbing the ladder until one glorious day he opened an envelope and Heaven was in it. It was an acceptance from The Century. You may now see his name in The Saturday Evening Post almost any month. It was William H. Hamby. As the present writer studies why Mr. Hamby has succeeded, two features stand out prominently--his ability to keep on and his great zest for living. To him nothing is prosaic. I... |
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