| That is what Chekhov said,perhaps some two hundred years ago,to£young writer who wanted advice,but if he had said it now,probablv the young writer would have laughed:He knows quicker,easie r’more competent ways—he,bu【not all young writers.More and more of these glrteQ young people seem to be falling out of love with the short—cut mechanical methods and are trying to get back to the old traditions.which,I suspect,IS why the Editors of The Writer have asked me to descnbe my own Chekhovian and tortoise ways.These are not,I hasten to add,“dictates”--all authors are different--but ways that I have found rewarding for myself. |
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