Village Squire, 1979-05, Page 9.tirst priority project. If all goes well, he'll continue on it for his
daily session. If not, he'll move on to priority two, and so on until
he finds something that will work for him that day. Sometimes
inspiration just won't come by the'time he gets to priority No.7,
there's no more sense worrying about it so he shuts the door and
walks away, he says. The priority system means that he doesn't
waste time or energy in frustrating himself. and time is money.
"That sounds very practical, but when you're writing for a
living, that's the way it's got to be done."
His priority list these days is indeed full. He's working on a
project of his own interest, a science fiction piece. He's also been
asked by his publisher Macmillan of Canada to come up with a
book on spies on the U.S. -Canada border. He has so many ideas
in his priority file that he feels he may never be able to deal with
many and is farming out some of the projects that will take years
of research to others who he thinks can do the job. He has to
invest his remaining time to best advantage, he says.
Things are considerably easier to the young writer today he
says and he even laments that there are many books being
published that don't deserve to be published. Forty years ago the
Canadian book section in a book store could take up one shelf.
Today it takes up a major portion of any bookstore. Yet in other
ways things are worse. Competition is much tougher these days
and some of the outlets like the C.B.C. of the forties and fifties
isn't much of a market for writers anymore. C.B.C. radio was,
and to a certain extent still is, regarded as the tops in the world.
The Ohio State University's Conference for Education by Radio
and Television gives annual awards and for years C.B.C. walked
off with all the major awards. Mr. Miller himself won nine of ten
of the awards and they accumulated so quickly that he didn't
give then much importance and stuffed them away in a drawer
until he read in New Yorker one day about an American radio
writer who had won one of these awards and had a story that
covered two whole columns in the prestigious magazine. He
went back and dug out his own awards and dusted them off.
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