| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: without another word. As he went out the postern-gate he looked
over his shoulder, and saw the tall figure, in its long
fur-trimmed gown, still standing in the middle of the path,
looking after him from under the shaggy eyebrows.
As he ran across the quadrangle, his heart still fluttering in
his breast, he muttered to himself, "The old grizzle-beard; an I
had not faced him a bold front, mayhap he would have put such
shame upon me as he said. I wonder why he stood so staring after
me as I left the garden."
Then for the time the matter slipped from his mind, saving only
that part that smacked of adventure.
Men of Iron |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris: rearranging, and embellishing; and Condy was astonished and
delighted to note that she "caught on" to the idea as quickly as
he, and knew the telling points and what details to leave out.
"And I'll make a bang-up article out of the whaleback herself,"
declared Condy. The "idea" of the article had returned to him,
and all his enthusiasm with it.
"And look here, he said, showing her the letter from the
Centennial Company. "They turned down my book, but see what they
say.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: send her a thousand roubles to Yalta as quickly as possible, and
ended with these words:
"Excuse the gloominess of this letter; yesterday I buried my
child." After spending about a year in the Crimea, she returned
home.
She had been about four years on her travels, and during those
four years, I must confess, I had played a rather strange and
unenviable part in regard to her. When in earlier days she had
told me she was going on the stage, and then wrote to me of her
love; when she was periodically overcome by extravagance, and I
continually had to send her first one and then two thousand
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