ON ASPIRING TO BE A WRITER.
1 — 0 • A GIRL'S CHANCES OF SUCCESS. WHAT EDITORS ARE LIKE. _Few New Zealand girls have achieved any 3istinction as writers—so far. But it does not. follow that 1 they will not. To write, and to bo paid for writing, is one of the growing professions: for girls. Australian girls seem to be wakening'up to that fact, and the' eyes of an always increasing number of them, ; are . turning - towards London—to ■ London where the literary markets are. And if a girl has confidence, an original outlook on Efe, feeling, and Mme; pretty little turn of . 1 the wrist which is distinctively her own, and not a vague imitation of well-known . .writer—if, she ias some 'ofthese qualifications, well, :the tired old world is ;never so, tired but what it wants to hear the.note she strikes. < And that is really very kind of I the weary old planet. For, when the world I begins to listen, good editors.are not slow in j beginning to pay. ' ' j
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 417, 28 January 1909, Page 8
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170ON ASPIRING TO BE A WRITER. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 417, 28 January 1909, Page 8
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