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Summer Session Kansan Friday, July 1, 1966
KU draws writers to conference
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SHE FINDS STUDENTS very idealistic, that they want to do good, that they want to fight a good fight, and want to read about people who do these things.
The second conference speaker, Jay Milner, Texas free-lance writer and teacher, told conference listeners Tuesday that writers do their best when they are where the action is.
"The serious writer has never been able to remain comfortable for a long time. He is not afraid to recognize things. He must move on to where the action is," Milner said.
LITERARY LECTURER for the writers' conference, Milner said everybody has a story to tell. The problem, he declared, is learning how to tell the story. Beginners are tempted to imitate somebody, he said.
A time comes when the developing writer must want to learn disciplines, and one of the first disciplines is writing fundamentals, an area in which writers' conferences and creative writing courses are helpful, Milner declared.
"ANOTHER IMPORTANT discipline the writer needs is to find himself—find his type of writing. This usually occurs when the developing writer has sold his first story," Milner said.
The committed creative writer faces many problems during his developing years, the Texas writer and teacher told the conference group.
THE THIRD SPEAKER Tuesday, Mrs. Helen Rowe Henze, spoke on "Poetic Structure: Old and New."
Recognized widely as a poet in the United States and abroad, Mrs. Henze told the writers that we are living in the most challenging and rewarding period of human history.
"I believe that poetry will come to attain a new grandeur and depth, a more sensitive insight, a clarified approach to the task of presenting life experience," she said.
WHILE A POEM must first have enchantment and while the poem is always more important than the technique, Mrs. Henze said, the versifier will find it helpful to find out what the rules are before beginning to break them.
"The technique should be completely mastered and then when it has become second nature, it can be forgotten," she said.
"How To Get the Story Planned, and How to Get It Written," was the Wednesday afternoon subject of Herbert Breen, author and editor of best-selling fiction, including six mystery novels.
BREAN TOLD the writers' conference that they should write anything—but write. A professional writer cannot afford the luxury of writing when he wants to write.
Once the writer sets a goal for himself, Brea said, he should stick to it.
"If the writer only works a half
hour a day, he should do it continuously, six days a week. In one year this half hour daily amounts to 150,000 words or the equivalent of two novels, Brean said.
ALONG WITH continuity of work, Brean told the writers it is also important that the writer use the same place for working. It enables him to come in, sit down and quickly pick up where he left off.
Production steps for the writer were broken into three stages by Breen. First stage is getting and starting with an idea. Second stage is the development of this idea. Third stage is the actual writing or shaping of material into logical form.
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One of the speakers scheduled for the 16th University of Kansas Writers' Conference meeting this week was forced to cancel his appearance because of an auto accident.
Writer injured in accident
Fred Kiewit, who was to speak Wednesday on feature writing, broke his lower jaw in two places when propelled against the dash during an emergency stop of his car in Kansas City.
Kiewit, news and feature writer for the Kansas City Star, studied
journalism at the University of Kansas in 1948-49. He has since worked for the Star, writing signed special articles for a number of years.
Berlin airlift record
BERLIN —(UPI)— The U.S. Air Force flew 2.5 million tons of supplies into Berlin in a 15-month period during the Berlin blockade by the Russians in 1948-49.
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