DIRECTIONS FOR WRITING
It is not easy to write, even with only a small degree of success, so happily suggestive a story as Hi-Brasil. Such a story is the product both of experience and of art.
The best that you can do is to think of some longing that has possessed you, as the longing for the sea possessed the author of Hi-Brasil. Take some prosaic character, not usually moved by such longings as your own, and show him brought strongly under the influence of a great desire. Make your story so realistic that it will seem true, and so symbolic that it will be at once poetic and capable of conveying a strong idea. Do all in your power to make your story crystal-clear, strongly outlined, and effective in power.