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HOW AND WHAT TO WRITE

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 19, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 25.

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HOW AND WHAT TO WRITE.

By Carolyn Wandell Bunce

SELLING one's thoughts for money Is all that literature means, When one examines some novels With which the bookstand teems. The wildest, impossible stories, Replete with improbable lies, Are dressed in the gaudiest covers, To attract the public eyes.
Should not our thoughts be noble, In all things we would write, Sticking to truth, not turning loose Imagination's flight? Our books are character builders, So we are taught to believe; On brain and pen much more depends Than the lucre we receive.
The youthful mind is receptive, As absorbent as a sponge; An impress made has often laid Foundation for life's plunge. Oh ye who write light novels, The novels of the day, Write strong and pure, what will endure, Not just to make them pay! — Carolyn Wandell Bunce.