[Becoming a Writer] Writing to Mechanical Pattern - Walter S. Campbell

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In time, a prolific writer can learn to do one such story every day of his life, and still find time to play golf. Of course, he has to write to pattern, and this means keeping up with the newer patterns all the time. He cannot master one simple formula and then write to that for the rest of his life; if that were possible, he could turn out three stories a day. But nowadays, competition is too keen to permit such slack methods.
Every professional who hopes for a popular hearing must write to mechanical pattern in the main, whatever he may be doing, or whatever group he writes for. In fact, the ability to do this is a real test of the popular professional writer, an ability as indispensable to him as is the ability to make blue-prints to an architect...
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