WRITING A BEST SELLER

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 105, 6 May 1933, Page 19

WRITING A BEST SELLER

"If you want to make money out of j writing, you must write about love," Miss Buby M. Ayres advised young writers in a lecture to the Trinity Literature Society, Glasgow. "You must make up your mind whether you are going to writo from a business point of view, or whether you have high falutin notions about 'writing for posterity,'" she continued. "Generally speaking, writers are divided into three classes—highbrow, authors, and best sellers like myself. I never could understand why it should be considered a disgrace to write five books in a year, and sell them, instead of writing ono in two years with doubtful prospects of sellingl it. "In novels, there aro two rules to be observed. Men must be- tall and strong, but not necessarily good-look-ing. You must have two men and a girl, or two girls and a man, and both men must loyo tha girl or both girls the man. "If you have not £20,000 a year, you like to read about people who have. Ido anyway. If you have not a very handsome young man, you like to read about someone who has. "I am a sentimentalist, and. have always believed in happy endinga."