THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 11, 1976
Writing mysteries keeps prof off streets
Page 5
By DEBBIE KILLOUGH
The state’s leading author of adult
, ysteries, Frank Peirce, says writ-
ffleeps him off the streets and out
bars.
Pfirce, who has combined a teach-
id writing career for the past 30
will have his fourteenth mys-
ry story published soon in “Ellery
pn Mystery Magazine.”
vjJfesides teaching various English
iHes and holding administrative
B Pierce sometimes sends as
any as 40 hours a week writing,
’niaddicted to it,” he said.
Of his 14 published mystery
•'Wifs five have been anthologized.
^teSt anthologies, or collections
^■epublish the best stories of the
were “Ellery Queen An-
Jgies,” “Mystery Writers of
ca Anthologies” and “The Best
dive Stories of the year in
I”
■addition to his mystery stories.
Peirce has also composed other types
of writing to help his students in
creative writing.
His works include five unpub
lished novels, gag lines for cartoons
and comedy routines. Three of his
novels won the top award offered by
the Southwest Writers Conference.
But Peirce still has not been able
to find a publisher for his novels.
“Competition,” he said, “is tre
mendous in the writing markets for
fiction today and there are a tre
mendous number of people writ
ing. ” However, he said that he never
gets discouraged by rejection slips.
Peirce said he writes whatever he
is in the mood for when he sits down
at his typewriter.
He said, “I enjoy writing anything
during the first few drafts. I write at
least six drafts of everything I do, but
the last four can really be drudgery. ”
But this drudgery does not slow
Campus Briefs
Sfpas A&M students who expect
Huluate in May have until Friday
i apply for the degree.
Application, involving an $8 fee,
igldbe made at the Richard Coke
Bing.
Fee receipts should be presented
undergraduate students in Room
jby graduate students in the
uate College office,
nd Sci(|A| large graduating group is ex-
aphy, H acted for spring commencement, a
alism, a; lentennial-celebration event at
lent of "mis A&M. Almost 2,500 had
Bed by Monday. Robert Baine,
listry |H$tant registrar, said another 200
1909, anJkUOO could qualify. Records checks
Biologi(iB orrec hons for the large graduat-
mmediiBg rou P require the lead time,
brick filiation will be May 7-8.
the TeiiB
it Stafe A| former Texas newspaperman
as no nd [current world authority on in-
000 str irnational politics visits Texas A&M
soil week as a Centennial professor,
itedfor sDr Charles B. Marshall, Paul H.
uildin: litze Professor of International Poli-
re coni cs at Johns Hopkins University,
Electure at a variety of seminars
B ess i° ns Friday through Sunday
lus a Saturday appearance during
le 21st Student Conference on Na-
I /Mj'onal Affairs.
Eeveille IV came home last
•itekend, with a graduation certifi-
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areness I months after it was imposed in
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ion. Bt women worried about possible
liquor fRi defects due to the product,
ms, bikiBhe commission banned spray
the aml lhesives in August 1973 because an
Rhone a researcher said two de-
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Hill The safety commission urged pre-
Iht women to contact their doctors
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' announced the ban on the
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him down any. He writes everyday
without exception. He said if he mis
ses one day, it is wice as easy to miss
the next.
Ideas for his stories are reached by
a variety of ways. He ges them from
cate from obedience school.
The purebred Collie mascot of the
Texas Aggies was in Austin six
weeks. She trained at the Canine
Hilton.
She attended the Baylor basket
ball game Saturday, her first home
game appearance since the Dec. 9
contest with Sam Houston State.
Rev IV will join her Corps of Cadets
guardian unit. Company E-2, in a
Thursday review for the 21st Student
Conference on National Affairs.
Reveille, who arrived at Texas
A&M last summer, learned to come,
sit, stay and heel on lead. E-2 Com
mander Mike Clark said J. C. Floyd,
mascot corporal, can instruct her to
stay and leave for long periods. Rev
does not move.
Rev’s Austin school studies actu
ally included some graduate work.
Because the nine-month-old Collie
easily mastered the usual four-weeks
program, she was invited to remain
for extra work.
Elated at being back on the cam
pus, Rev romped with E-2 cadets an
hour and a half, chasing her frisbee.
The Texas Aggie Band’s annual
dance will be held at Zachry En
gineering Center Friday, February
13.
The dance is scheduled to begin at
8:40 p.m. and dress is formal.
Music will be provided by
Doppleganger of Houston.
The Corps of Cadets will pass in
review Thursday, February 12 in
honor of SCONA XXL
The review will start at 5:20 p.m.
on the main drill field.
SCONA XXI delegates will be in
the reviewing stand.
The Freshman Class will meet
today at 7:30 p.m. in MSC 230.
Omega Phi Alpha will meet today
at 6:30 p.m. in the Conference Room
of the Student Programs Office.
Pakistan Student Association will
meet today at 6:15 p.m. in MSC211.
The TAMU Nursing Society will
meet today at 7 p.m. in G. Rollie
White 267.
Women’s Soccer Club will meet
today at 7 p.m. in Rudder Tower.
Mid-Jefferson County HTC will
meet today at 7:30 p.m. at the Pizza
Inn next to the Bank of A&M. Free
Pizza and drinks for students from
the area.
Sierra Club will meet today at
7:30 p.m. at University National
Bank.
Student Education Association
will meet today at 7:30 p.m. in MSC
225.
The Senior Class will meet today
at 8 p.m. in Rudder 305.
Dr. Athelstan Spilhaus will speak
today at 7 p.m. in Bizzell 203. He
is a visiting Centennial professor.
“A Doll’s House” will be pre
sented by the Aggie Cinema today at
8 p.m. in Rudder 701.
reading newspapers, observing a
happening around him, or hearing a
striking quotation.
For instance, he read the quota
tion, “Give a man a mask that he can
hide behind and he will tell you
about himself.”
Changing the quotation to, “Give
a man many masks to hide behind
and he will tell you about his world”
resulted in the short story “Total
Portrait” which was published in
“The Best Detective Stories of the
year in 1972.”
Looking at writing from an
economic point of view, Peirce said
he tells his students not to go into the
field of writing for the money. The
most he has ever earned from writing
in a year was $5800.
Giving advice to those students
wanting to write, he said the best
thing to do is to submit stories.
“Criticism,” he said, “can help a
writer, but not if he does not write.
You can learn more by developing
habits of self discipline than from any
other source.”
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