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A Handbook on Story Writing (Paperback)
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A Handbook on Story Writing (Paperback)
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index.
Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book
(without typos) from the publisher. 1919. Not illustrated. Excerpt:
... CHAPTER XVI POPULARITY AND LONGEVITY Culture of reader a factor
in author's popularity; extremes of reading types; their common
ground of interest; publishers of fiction satisfy certain demands;
striking incident, sentiment, exploitation of sex, humour; reality
of the present and romance of the remote; Russian realism; Hamlin
Garland; trench realism versus trench romance; demand for rapid
action, strong passions, substance rather than form marks the
popular audience; qualities of originality and style with reference
to popularity and to longevity; Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's
testimony; student's answer representative; originality, emotional
appeal, and simplicity of style make for longevity; greatness. Let
us assume that the story writer intends to make his appeal to the
public of to-day in the foremost centres of civilisation. It is
clear that the comparative culture of the reader will enter as a
factor into the sum of an author's popularity. What Mr. William
Dean Howells terms the "boudoir audience" will represent one
extreme; the vulgar crowd, the other. Choosing Henry James and O.
Henry as thoroughly representative and well-known writers, we shall
have no difficulty in answering the questions, Which of the two
will appeal to the boudoir audience? Which to the crowd? Which will
number more readers from one extreme of the scale to the other? Nor
will the obvious answer discriminate against either of the authors:
it is fair to say that Henry James is popular with thousands of
readers, O. Henry with hundreds of thousands. The tastes of the
reading extremes meet in their common interest in humanity; both
desire pictures of life and a compelling narrative. Individual
pictures will not serve for both alike; nor will the same narrative
compel, alike; nevertheless, in ...
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