written the last chapter first, and founded my whole story on the
one episode that it contained.

As a rule, too, I never give more time to my writing than two hours out
of every day. But I write quickly, and have my notes before me, and I
can do a great deal in a short time. Not that I give these two hours
systematically; when the idle vein is in full flow I fling aside the
pen and rush gladly into the open air, seeking high and low for the
children, who (delightful thought) will be sure to help me toward that
state of frivolity to which the sunshine outside has tempted me to
aspire.

To _force_ the mind is, in my opinion, bad business. What comes
spontaneously is of untold value. It is always fresh, always the best
of which the writer may be capable. These unsolicited outbursts of the
mind are as the wild sprays sent heavenward at times by a calm and
slumbering ocean--a promise of the power that reigns in the now quiet
breast. Thus dreams are of value; and to dreams (those most spontaneous
and unsought of all things) I owe much."

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