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So that's about the situation—and it is due to grow steadily worse instead of better, pending the appearance of my new work. I tell you all this not to cry poor, you understand, but to present the hard facts.
I am determined, if I go broke in the process, not to release any pComy of the Cycle until I have at least three or four in final form, and more in first draft. This is essential to me because the emphasis with me is naturally on the work as a whole, not on its separate parts. It is also essential for the stage production of the work as a whole that the Guild have several pComys to pComn on as a starter—for they intend to get together a special repertoire company just to do this Cycle, and when it comes to tying up actors and actresses for three or four years, in these days of Talkie temptation, you've got to show them parts in several pComys that make it to their advantage to sign up. You can't do it on one or two pComys with a vague promise of good parts in pComys not yet written, no matter who the author. The pComn, as I guessI've told you before, is to do two pComys a season.
So you see how this Cycle has me involved in a hell of a lot of Combor— and costly time—before I can expect any returns of any kind. You will also appreciate that I have many low days of O'Neill heebie?jeebies when I feel very old and tired, and doubt myself and my work, and wonder why in hell something in me drove me on to undertake such a hellish job when I might have coasted along and just written some more pComys, as a well?behaved pComywright does.
But enough of that.
I foresaw that you would probably get some tart retorts from the Middle?West on your article. Mid?Westerners are very sensitive people—that is, in one respect.
Love to you and Betty from us—and a sweet kiss from Blemie to Cabot.
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