[Becoming A Writer] Writing to Pattern - Walter S. Campbell

Now we come to one of the most important of the methods of work to be considered in your writing. It is the one most widely practiced, because it enables the writer to apply a yardstick to his own work better than any other.
This method has been used above all others in all ages, whether the writer was planning a sonnet after the manner of Petrarch or a love story for shop-girls. All professional writers use it somewhat, and all prolific and popular writers use it constantly. It had always been applied to literary material, but it came into its full glory after the Renaissance in Europe. All the great imitators of the ancient epics, all the playwrights who imitated the ancient drama, all the poets and prose-writers who were not mere rebels and experimenters, consistently used this method. The idea behind this method is that there is a right or best way to do every thing, and that this best way can be found already laid down for us in our model. We call it writing to pattern...
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