SUBJECTS FOR WRITTEN IMITATION
1. Utopia11. The World of Puck and Oberon2. Castles in Spain12. The Summit of Olympus3. The Fountain of Youth13. Eldorado4. Arcadia14. St. Brendan's Isle5. The Garden of the Hesperides15. Lyonesse6. Over the Mountains16. The Fortunate Islands7. The Happy Valley17. The Land of the Lotus8. The Land of Dreams18. The Lost Atlantis9. The Isle of Avalon19. At Camelot10. The Enchanted World20. The Land of Heart's Delight
1. Utopia11. The World of Puck and Oberon2. Castles in Spain12. The Summit of Olympus3. The Fountain of Youth13. Eldorado4. Arcadia14. St. Brendan's Isle5. The Garden of the Hesperides15. Lyonesse6. Over the Mountains16. The Fortunate Islands7. The Happy Valley17. The Land of the Lotus8. The Land of Dreams18. The Lost Atlantis9. The Isle of Avalon19. At Camelot10. The Enchanted World20. The Land of Heart's Delight
It is not easy to write, even with only a small degree of success, so happily suggestive a story asHi-Brasil. Such a story is the product both of experience and of art.
The best that you can do is to think of some longing that has possessed you, as the longing for the sea possessed the author ofHi-Brasil. Take some prosaic character, not usually moved by such longings as your own, and show him brought strongly under the influence of a great desire. Make your story so realistic that it will seem true, and so symbolic that it will be at once poetic and capable of conveying a strong idea. Do all in your power to make your story crystal-clear, strongly outlined, and effective in power.