The Coral Gables Times

MAX SHULMAN

Continued from page 7 and studied them. I knew every word of Lardner, Benchley, Perelman, Thurber, A... Twain and all the rest. This is an approach to reading which I could recommend to the student writer. Find the people who write as you would like to and study them. Today my style, such as it is, is formed and I no longer have to read for instruction—I can read for pleasure. The authors I enjoy most now are Dostoe [?]i and Shakespeare. These are two more writers I would recommend to a beginning writer because they illuminate every corner of the human soul. • If you are using a character from real life, change him enough so that he can't be identified. In fact, the very changing of factual characters is an integral part of the writer's art and should give you pride and satisfaction. • There is always an unseen attendant looking over my shoulder when I am at the typewriter. He represents the reader I am trying to reach. When I have to make a decision between my taste and his, I always yield to his. • The background of your story can be of enormous added value. If you can paint an exotic picture, if you can evoke a nostalgic mood, you cannot help but captivate a reader. Beware, however, of piling up detail for the sake of detail. Never let description get in the way of your story. • The writing of humor in television is not stringing a lot of jokes together; it is telling a story which is plausible, believable, well-motivated, well-plotted and funny. The rules of composition, the rules of fiction, the rules of dramatic writing all continue to apply when you're writing humor. Besides, you have got an additional problem of making your story funny.

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