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It wasn't until Sally had signed the veral occasions she was naked to contract with the Mayberry syndicate address certain gatherings which in-. that sho achieved the recognition and cluded several well-known writers. security she had always hoped for. She had an unhappy feeling that they And then, having reached this goal, were trying to be kind, or perhaps, she felt, surprisingly enough, in- listening to a pulp writer was for these celebrities like seeing how the adequate
other half lived But she didn't care. The contract was the result of Sal- she did the best she could. If they ly's ownvidea She had been selling werd amused well, sometime she, too, some fiction and an occasional article was going to be amused. Ustening to to the Mayberry people, but she wasn't pulp writers. getting anywhere. Then had come
Six months after she had signed the idea. She offered to do a weekly fiction story for Mayberry, based on a her contract, Sally was asked to speak Help Wanted advertisement. That is, before the Fairlawn Authors' League. she would start the yarn by writing She was surprised, because it was the writers' anad "Wanted: Young capable largest and most famous girl to help mother with family of club in the city. Only a few of the five." Using this or some similar ad faces that looked up at her from the as a basis she would write her story audience were familiar.
The Mayberry people thought ita She talked for half an hour, then. good idea. They tried some of Sally's at the request of the programme chair samples on a few newspapers. The man, agreed to answer questions. Fore newspapers gobbled it up. So the the most part the questions put to syndicate wrote, a contract, requiring her seemed ailly and irrelevant. They a weekly story. from Sally and agree were the type of questions which her ing to pay her 60 per cent of the friends asked her, people who didn't know the business, and were merely net profits
cúrious.
Bally was thrilled. This would give : her security.. It would mean of her hit-and-miss method
the end One woman in particular was per- you which, sistent "How far ahead,” do
of necessity, she had had to depond keep on your stories? Do you write
By Karl
Grayson
would at last the the want ads yourself? upon. More, sho^i recognized as a writer with enough consider the best market for love ability to make her living from her stories Where do you get your
ideas?” profession.
Still, the day, she attended her first They were the same old questions meeting of the Scribblers Manuscript that everyone asked and Sully gave- club she felt inadequate. She not the same old answers. This woman, such people as Ted Beecher and Patty she was sure, was a guest and couldn't Mason, writers, whose work she had know much about the business. · Her read for years, people who, up to tone and manner were almost ingr now, had been no more than myths tiating,Wolly!, Sally thought
was that way, oncer myself, robably to her.
I hope am now to a certain extent. -1 They were all kind, gracious, co
com- I haven't sounded bored, uneve
over At last the que ang bnded", and Phew!" she thought, plimentary yet after it was she thought about what they had ac Sally sat down. complished and what she was doing "do I feel inadequate now. The way and she felt inadequate.". After all, some of those slick writers looked, my she wrote for the pulp magazines, and answers must have sounded more sil- most of their stories appeared in the ly than, the questions. Perhaps it better class magazines, referred to was wrong for me to accept this in- sometimes, as the "slicks," or at least vitation. Perhaps it's wrong for me had written a book or two. Pulp to go on pretending, making people writers weren't considered any great think that I have no sense of inferior- shakes. She knew that. Even though ity when other writers are around. she did do a story every week and it Dimly she heard the“: chaigman's was an idea of her own creation. words of appreciation. Then sudd
She sighed, Well, it wouldn't al- ly her senses became alort ways be like this. She was going to "And now the chairman was say
Wintroduco a keep trying to do better, and some ing, "I want to i time in the uncertain future she too al guest of honours Miss Dorit would write books or hit the slicks.- . Sally's month fall open, -- Some day she was going to be a man who had asked her thos grant as even Dorit Waters, whose questions was standing, bowing She stories she admired more than any looked directly at Sally and smiled. There was no mistaking the mean- other writer in, the world.
The feeling of inadequacy grow the ing of that umile. It was a smile of more Sally was invited to blacon where triumph, falt, Bald."You 800,- Mins too am well known." writers assembled. To bo thrown into Sally Cannon
ant well that such close contact was fictionists of Sally blinked," I loo far-reaching and established, reputa- known." That meant why tion was awe-inspiring. It robbed her meant good heavens It mhant that of the clation and triumph who had Dorit Watera, had been feeling, Ing at first enjoyed when the Mayberry adequate because, of bor, Sally!. people wrote that her idea: was suc-
comaful.
sho felt, she managed
Sally" returned the smild, warmly,
ly, PA warm, friendly ted her boing, dissipat
180 of inferiosi
ed at her sense
She was sure, boca