Life — December 5, 1907 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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2 PMR aGAS he Literary))Zoo > SEI rer back and rewrite the work done on three or four days, +. HEN Mrs. Alice [egan Rice is indus- trious she worl:s three hours in the morning for four months of the year, in the winter and spring. She docs most of her revision mentally, in advance, before touch- ing pen to paper—going over and over the story to herself, and then writes rapidly, and with little effort, in longhand. How- ever, she makes two or more careful and complete revisions, to avoid as far as pos- sible the slipshod results of rapid compo- sition. e « # 'T WILL be observed from the foregoing notes that of the authors whose working methods have been indicated, not one of them devotes the evening hours to compo- sition, while almost all of them limit their tasks to the moming. None of the nine- teen dictates his work, and very few em- ploy the typewriting machine. Nearly all of them revise or rewrite the original draft. Excepting that few of them are so industri- ous, their methods, it would appear, do not greatly vary from the old-fashioned and ac- cepted ones exemplified in the literary la- bors of Mr. Howells, who, we have always understood, is a tireless and methodical worker. Indeed, if report be true, the Dean of American Letters is more modem in the mechanical medium of his expression than his younger brethren, inasmuch as he is said to find the typewriting machine a less laborious implement than the pen. This, we fancy, may be ascribed to lifelong prac- tice in writing, as well as to that clear thinking manifest in the ease of Mr. How- dls’s literary style. For one who thinks clearly and connectedly and composes with care, the typewriter, when operated by the writer himself, is no hindrance to felicity and flexibility of expression. As for Mark Twain, he is sui generis— which, being freely translated, means that creative work is play to him, and that he does his best writing in bed. 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