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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of How I write my novels, by Mrs. Hungerford
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+Title: How I write my novels
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+Author: Mrs. Hungerford
+
+Release Date: December 25, 2008 [EBook #27621]
+
+Language: English
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+Character set encoding: ASCII
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HOW I WRITE MY NOVELS ***
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+Produced by Daniel Fromont
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+
+
+[Transcriber's note: Mrs. Hungerford (Margaret Wolfe Hamilton)
+(1855?-1897) "How I write my novels" (from Mrs Hungerford's
+_An anxious moment_ pp. 275-282)]
+
+
+
+
+
+
+To sit down in cold blood and deliberately set to cudgel one's brains
+with a view to dragging from them a plot wherewith to make a book is (I
+have been told) the habit of some writers, and those of no small
+reputation. Happy people! What powers of concentration must be theirs!
+What a belief in themselves--that most desirable of all beliefs, that
+sweet propeller toward the temple of fame. Have faith in yourself, and
+all me, will have faith in you.
+
+But as for me, I have to lie awake o'nights longing and hoping for
+inspirations that oft-times are slow to come. But when they do come,
+what a delight! All at once, in a flash, as it were, the whole story
+lies open before me--a delicate diorama, vague here and there, but
+with a beginning and an end--clear as crystal. I can never tell when
+these inspirations may be coming; sometimes in the dark watches of the
+night; sometimes when driving through the crisp, sweet air; sometimes a
+word in a crowded drawing-room, a thought rising from the book in hand,
+sends them with a rush to the surface, where they are seized and
+brought to land, and carried home in triumph. After that the 'dressing'
+of them is simple enough.
+
+But just in the beginning it was not so simple. Alas! for that first
+story of mine--the raven I sent you of my ark and never saw again.
+Unlike the proverbial curse, it did not come home to roost; it stayed
+where I had sent it. The only thing I ever heard of it again was a
+polite letter from the editor in whose office it lay, telling me I
+could have it back if I enclosed stamps to the amount of twopence
+halfpenny, otherwise he should feel it his unpleasant duty to 'consign
+it to the waste-paper basket'. I was only sixteen then, and it is a
+very long time ago; but I have always hated the words 'waste paper'
+ever since. I don't remember that I was either angry or indignant, but
+I _do_ remember that I was both sad and sorry. At all events, I never
+sent that miserable twopence halfpenny, so I conclude my first
+manuscript went to light the fire of that heartless editor.
+
+So much comfort I may have bestowed on him, but he left me comfortless;
+and yet who can say what good he may not have done me? Paths made too
+smooth leave the feet unprepared for rougher roads. To step always in
+the primrose way is death to the higher desires. Yet oh, for the hours
+I spent over that poor rejected story, beautifying it (as I fondly, if
+erroneously, believed), adding a word here, a sentiment there! So
+conscientiously minded was I, that even the headings of the chapters
+were scraps of poetry (so called) done all by myself. Well, never mind.
+I was very young then, and, as they say upon the stage, I 'meant well'.
+
+For a long twelvemonth after that I never dreamed of putting pen to
+paper. I had given myself up, as it were. I was the most modest of
+children, and fully decided within myself that a man so clever as a
+real live editor must needs be could not have been mistaken. He had
+seen and judged, and practically told me that writing was not my forte.
+
+Yet the inevitable hour came round once more. Once again an idea caught
+me, held me, _persuaded_ me that I could put it into words. I struggled
+with it this time, but it was too strong for me; and that early
+exhilarating certainty that there was 'something in me', as people say,
+was once more mine, and seizing my pen, I sat down and wrote, wrote,
+wrote, until the idea was an object formed.
+
+With closed doors I wrote at stolen moments. I had not forgotten the
+quips and cranks uttered at my expense by my brother and sister on the
+refusal of that last-first manuscript. To them it had been a fund of
+joy. In fear and trembling I wrote this second effusion, finished it,
+wept over it (it was the most lachrymose of tales), and finally, under
+cover of night, induced the housemaid to carry it to the post. To that
+first unsympathetic editor I sent it (which argues a distant lack of
+malice in my disposition), and oh, joy! it was actually accepted. I
+have written many a thing since, but I doubt if I have ever known again
+the unadulterated delight that was mine when my first insignificant
+cheque was held within my hands.
+
+As for my characters: you ask how I conceive them. Once the plot is
+rescued from the misty depths of the mind, the characters come and
+range themselves readily enough. A scene, we will say, suggests
+itself--a garden, a flower-show, a ball-room, what you will--and two
+people in it. A young man and woman for choice. They are always young
+with me, for that matter, for what under the heaven we are promised is
+so altogether perfect as youth! Oh, that we could all be young for ever
+and for ever; that Time,
+
+'That treads more soft than e'er did midnight thief',
+
+could be abruptly slain by some great conqueror, and we poor human
+beings let loose, defiant of its thralls! But no such conqueror comes,
+and Time flies swiftly as of yore, and drags us headlong, whether we
+will or not, to the unattractive grave.
+
+If any one of you, dear readers, is as bad a sleeper as I am, you will
+understand how thoughts swarm at midnight. Busy, bustling, stinging
+bees, they forbid the needed rest, and, thronging the idle brain,
+compel attention. Here in the silent hours the ghosts called characters
+walk slowly, smiling, bowing, nodding, pirouetting, going like
+marionettes through all their paces. At night, I have had my gayest
+thoughts; at night, my saddest. All things seem open then to that
+giant, Imagination.
+
+Here, lying in the dark, with as yet no glimmer of the coming dawn, no
+faintest light to show where the closed curtains join, too indolent to
+rise and light the lamp, too sleepy to put one's foot out of the
+well-warmed bed, praying fruitlessly for that sleep that will not
+come--it is at such moments as these that my mind lays hold of the
+novel now in hand, and works away at it with a vigour, against which
+the natural desire for sleep hopelessly makes battle.
+
+Just born this novel may be, or half completed; however it is, off goes
+one's brain at a tangent. Scene follows scene, one touching the other;
+the characters unconsciously fall into shape; the villain takes a ruddy
+hue; the hero dons a white robe; as for the heroine, who shall say what
+dyes from Olympia are not hers? A conversation suggests itself, an act
+thrusts itself into notice. Lightest of skeletons all these must
+necessarily be, yet they make up eventually the big whole, and from the
+brain wanderings of one wakeful night three of four chapters are
+created for the next morning's work.
+
+As for the work itself, mine is, perhaps, strangely done, for often I
+have written the last chapter first, and founded my whole story on the
+one episode that it contained.
+
+As a rule, too, I never give more time to my writing than two hours out
+of every day. But I write quickly, and have my notes before me, and I
+can do a great deal in a short time. Not that I give these two hours
+systematically; when the idle vein is in full flow I fling aside the
+pen and rush gladly into the open air, seeking high and low for the
+children, who (delightful thought) will be sure to help me toward that
+state of frivolity to which the sunshine outside has tempted me to
+aspire.
+
+To _force_ the mind is, in my opinion, bad business. What comes
+spontaneously is of untold value. It is always fresh, always the best
+of which the writer may be capable. These unsolicited outbursts of the
+mind are as the wild sprays sent heavenward at times by a calm and
+slumbering ocean--a promise of the power that reigns in the now quiet
+breast. Thus dreams are of value; and to dreams (those most spontaneous
+and unsought of all things) I owe much."
+
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