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Lacey Amy
works till 5
Lacey Amy, author of innumerable thrillers under the pseudonym
of Luke Allen, who is wintering and writing at the Royal Palm hotel, has a
working schedule that explains his ability to turn out two and
sometimes three novels a year.
To begin with, Amy is a firm believer in treating writing as
regular office job and, as such, working regular office hours.
“I think all this business of writing only when you are inspired
or in the mood for it, kills more embryonic writers (which is probably a good
thing, he parenthesized with one of his quick smiles) than any other one thing about
the trade.” He said: “You’ve got to work steadily between prescribed hours,
even If you don’t want to and can think of nothing to write about. In that way
you keep your mind facile and able to concentrate at will so that when an idea
comes, it will not be lost while you painstakingly muster all your lax creative
ability to carry it out.”
In accordance with his theory, Amy sits down at his desk from 10 until 1, takes an
hour off for lunch, is back at work again at 2 and calls it a day at 5. It
usually takes him about three months to complete a novel, varying one way or
another according to the length.
Amy doesn’t make cut and dried plots, he finds that he
can work better if he just has a general idea and lets the story and the
characters more or less write themselves. The most trivial of things suggests
ideas to him, as for instance, the story he tells of how “Traitor,” his novel
laid in Florida, came to be written.
“I
was driving out by Maximo point one
day.” Amy said, “when
over the tops of the trees I saw an isolated cupola sticking up.
It was a startling sight, because the jungle around was so dense and deserted
and right then and there I visioned a story built around the cupola—the result
was “The Traitor.”
Amy
thinks all courses in short story or novel writing are valueless. He added
that, in his estimation, a newspaper office is the best training in the world for anyone who wishes
to write.
With Mrs. Amy he plans to stay In St. Petersburg indefinitely—at
least until he finishes the final draft of the story upon which he is working at present.
Lacey Amy,
noted Canadian writer whose books have been translated into many languages, has
returned with Mrs. Amy for another season in St. Petersburg and is living again
at the Royal Palm hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Amy spent the summer in their northern
home at Toronto.
Amy’s most
recent book, written in St. Petersburg while he was here last winter, is “The
Case of the Open Drawer.” It is a mystery story, as are his others, and has
been received with much acclaim.
The Toronto World - Nov 4. 1916
How Uncle
Sam runs an election.
Side lights
on THE HIGH COST OF FOOD.
Reducing the
enemy’s strength.
Women of
Mesopotamia.
A personal talk with Paderewski.
Letter from
London by Lacey Amy.
This is
one interesting little town to look up! Some of the homes lay in both Canada
and the USA!/drf as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanstead,_Quebec
One of the Most Awe Inspiring Spectacles In Nature.
From
The
Stanstead Journal, dated 1915, September 1915.
There
is nothing in nature so imposing and awe inspiring as the iceberg, writes Lacey
Amy in the Wide World Magazine. It gives an overpowering sense of relentless
force, of dignity and of brilliance.
Beneath
the sun’s vivid rays or the dark clouds of threatening storm, in the moon’s
cold beams or dimly through the shadows of moonless night, in calm and tempest—every
one of them, from the tiny “growler” to the huge mass of spurs, rouses at first
glimpse an awe undiminished by a growing appreciation of its beauty.
Always
before one is the thought that but an eighth of the iceberg’s bulk shows above
the water, the remiader stretching down and down into the blue-green depths and
out and out until captains breathe freely only when the horizon is clear of
them. Far out in the ocean, with the largest steamers passing swiftly miles inside,
they ground upon the bottom in tremendous depths and calmly await the relieving
touch of sun and current.
In
the wildest seas and strongest gales these frigid mountains float undisturbed.
There could be no seasickness on an iceberg, for its foundations are fathoms
below the wave disturbance.
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