Methods of Authors

Methods of Authors is a classic writing guide by Hugo Erichsen that contains the following chapters: Eccentricities in composition -- Care in literary production -- Speed in writing -- Influence upon writers of time and place -- Writing under difficulties -- Aids to inspiration; Favorite habits of work -- Goethe, Dickens, Schiller, and Scott -- Burning midnight oil -- Literary partnership -- Anonymity in authorship -- System in novel writing -- Traits of musical composers -- The hygiene of writing -- A humorist's regimen.