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Blue Book v059 n06 [1934-10], 1934
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1SPARE TIME TRAINING
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28☐ Correspondence
29Name……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
30Street & Number………………………………………………………………………………………………Town……………………………………………………State…………………
31A PRIZE OFFER: The truth that is stranger than fiction; the hour so crowded with excitement that it shines bright before all others in memory—these are tremendously interesting to everyone. For this reason The Blue Book Magazine prints each month in our Real Experience Department (beginning on Page 130 of this issue) a group of true stories contributed by our readers. And for this department we are glad to receive true stories of real experience, told in about 2,000 words; and for each of the five best of these we will pay fifty dollars.
32In theme the stories may deal with adventure, mystery, sport, humor,—especially humor!—war or business. Sex is barred. Manuscripts should be addressed to the Real Experience Editor, the Blue Book Magazine, 230 Park Ave., New York, N. Y. Preferably but not necessarily they should be typewritten, and should be accompanied by a stamped and self-addressed envelope for use in case the story is unavailable.
33A pen name may be used if desired, but in all cases the writer's real name and permanent address should accompany the manuscript. Be sure to write your name and correct address in the upper left-hand corner of the first page of your story, and keep a copy as insurance against loss of the original; for while we handle manuscripts with great care, we cannot accept responsibility for their return. As this is a monthly contest, from one to two months may elapse before you receive a report on your story.
34How do you Know you can't Write?
35HAVE you ever tried? Have you ever attempted even the least bit of training, under competent guidance? Or have you been sitting back, as it is so easy to do, waiting for the day to come some time when you will awaken, all of a sudden, to the discovery, "I am a writer"?
36If the latter course is the one of your choosing, you probably never will write. Lawyers must be law clerks, Engineers must be draftsmen. We all know that, in our times, the egg does come before the chicken.
37It is seldom that any one becomes a writer until he (or she) has been writing for some time. That is why so many authors and writers spring up out of the newspaper business. The day-to-day necessity of writing—of gathering material about which to write—develops their talent, their insight, their background and their confidence as nothing else could.
38That is why the Newspaper Institute of America bases its writing instruction on journalism—the training that has produced so many successful authors.
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40NEWSPAPER Institute training is based on the New York Copy-Desk Method. It starts and keeps you writing in your own home, on your own time. Week by week you receive actual assignments, just as if you were right at work on a great metropolitan daily. Your writing is individually corrected and constructively criticized. A group of men, whose combined newspaper experience totals more than 200 years, are responsible for this instruction. Under such sympathetic guidance, you will find that (instead of vainly trying to copy some one else's writing tricks) you are rapidly developing your own distinctive, self-flavored style—undergoing an experience that has a thrill to it and which at the same time develops in you the power to make your feelings articulate.
41Many people who should be writing become awestruck by fabulous stories about millionaire authors and therefore give little thought to the $25, $50 and $100 or more that can often be earned for material that takes little time to write—stories, articles, on business, fads, travels, sports, recipes, etc.—things that can easily be turned out in leisure hours and often on the impulse of the moment.
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43Sells Two More Stories
44"Perhaps you will be interested to learn that I have just sold two more stories. One of these was to The Blue Book, and the other was sold to True Detective Mysteries. I feel quite encouraged, for I consider both these magazines a step in advance of the ones I have sold to formerly."
45Darrell E. Jordan, P. O. Box 277, Friendship, N. Y.
46NEWSPAPER INSTITUTE OF AMERICA—1776 Broadway, New York
47Newspaper Institute of America
481776 Broadway, New York
49Send me, without cost or obligation, your Writing Aptitude Test and further information about writing for profit, as promised in Blue Book, October.
50Mr. ____________________________
51Mrs. ____________________________
52Miss ____________________________
53Address………………………………………………………
54(All correspondence confidential. No salesmen will call on you.) 68j364
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