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17 have as many uses as rough paper. This vicious circle will make you a pauper, and you'll suddenly remember you don't like kids anywho. General Makeup: Personally I'm just kaarazy about Max Factor's new Pancake as you can also use it on your legs as stockings. As your heroine will wear little or nothing, the cake of stuff is all she will need, excepting maybe a hunk of gossamer stuff which she will wear for about ten seconds, this usually being the cover scene. New Ideas: You Must have at least one new idea for a story of this type, i.e. if author Kleve Kartwheel turns out a hunk of stuff wherein a man travels to the planet FFuts in an ultra-space-warp globe (tubes are rationed) you go him one better and have the planet FFuts travel to the ultra-space-warp globe in a man. This would undoubtedly give the man indigestion, but the fact that you are writing science fiction shows that you are a sadist. Then there is the idea of a man who travels sidewise in a circle through time, and bumps into his alter ego. This idea never fails to satisfy and always produces a few bruises. Who's Plot Shall I Filsh?: Why anyone's of course. You don't want to be unique in the fantasy field do you? People would all you a hack, and some wag would probably send you a telegram, wanting to know the fare to Podunk. This would send you rushing out in one fell swoop, which in all probability still has payments due on it, not to mention the holes in the bottom. SUSPENSE Always remember to inject suspense into your stories. If you hypodermic needle is rusty, make a slit in the outer tubing and blow in with a straw. One way to achieve suspense is by killing, oh by all means, have plenty of killing. Killing always puts new blood into a story. Use the boy meets girl, wants girl, obstacles int the way, boy gets girl theme. The obstacles in the way can be villains, BEMs, plant men, BEMS, phantams, BEMs or Bug Eyed Monsters. Granted that boy gets girl, be fickle, have him kiss her. Don't be silly, if you do no science fiction magazine will touch it, the editors will be out looking for the girl, for it will be an entirely new concept to them. Always give your story something for the readers to cogitate over. I you can give them something to cogitate under, O.K., that's nice too. If you think your story is becoming cold, put on your thinking cap. This is to keep your cars warm. Always remember this "If you've got any sense, don't dispense with suspense." BITS OF BUSINESS Always garnish you story with bits of business. This is not a point to auger about and though it is sometimes boring it's an old ratchet. The present trend is to describe a person by what they do no do, i.c. "She didn't put her hands on her hips, she didn't have to. You weren't looking at her hips anyway". If you were , you must be crosseyed. You can also use the 'negative twist'. No, I'm not talking about a 'no' girl but a trick that always works. (For Supplementary Reading See Any Magicians Manual). It is always a good bit of business to have your characters indulge in a it if marching, no water, dying of thirst, etc. This an old treck but it always
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17 have as many uses as rough paper. This vicious circle will make you a pauper, and you'll suddenly remember you don't like kids anywho. General Makeup: Personally I'm just kaarazy about Max Factor's new Pancake as you can also use it on your legs as stockings. As your heroine will wear little or nothing, the cake of stuff is all she will need, excepting maybe a hunk of gossamer stuff which she will wear for about ten seconds, this usually being the cover scene. New Ideas: You Must have at least one new idea for a story of this type, i.e. if author Kleve Kartwheel turns out a hunk of stuff wherein a man travels to the planet FFuts in an ultra-space-warp globe (tubes are rationed) you go him one better and have the planet FFuts travel to the ultra-space-warp globe in a man. This would undoubtedly give the man indigestion, but the fact that you are writing science fiction shows that you are a sadist. Then there is the idea of a man who travels sidewise in a circle through time, and bumps into his alter ego. This idea never fails to satisfy and always produces a few bruises. Who's Plot Shall I Filsh?: Why anyone's of course. You don't want to be unique in the fantasy field do you? People would all you a hack, and some wag would probably send you a telegram, wanting to know the fare to Podunk. This would send you rushing out in one fell swoop, which in all probability still has payments due on it, not to mention the holes in the bottom. SUSPENSE Always remember to inject suspense into your stories. If you hypodermic needle is rusty, make a slit in the outer tubing and blow in with a straw. One way to achieve suspense is by killing, oh by all means, have plenty of killing. Killing always puts new blood into a story. Use the boy meets girl, wants girl, obstacles int the way, boy gets girl theme. The obstacles in the way can be villains, BEMs, plant men, BEMS, phantams, BEMs or Bug Eyed Monsters. Granted that boy gets girl, be fickle, have him kiss her. Don't be silly, if you do no science fiction magazine will touch it, the editors will be out looking for the girl, for it will be an entirely new concept to them. Always give your story something for the readers to cogitate over. I you can give them something to cogitate under, O.K., that's nice too. If you think your story is becoming cold, put on your thinking cap. This is to keep your cars warm. Always remember this "If you've got any sense, don't dispense with suspense." BITS OF BUSINESS Always garnish you story with bits of business. This is not a point to auger about and though it is sometimes boring it's an old ratchet. The present trend is to describe a person by what they do no do, i.c. "She didn't put her hands on her hips, she didn't have to. You weren't looking at her hips anyway". If you were , you must be crosseyed. You can also use the 'negative twist'. No, I'm not talking about a 'no' girl but a trick that always works. (For Supplementary Reading See Any Magicians Manual). It is always a good bit of business to have your characters indulge in a it if marching, no water, dying of thirst, etc. This an old treck but it always
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