DIRECTIONS FOR WRITING
If you are to imitate Running Wolf successfully you must first think of a story of the supernatural, a simple, easily-understood story that will have a foundation of fact, and that will appear to be reasonable in its use of the supernatural. Then, without introducing your story immediately, show how a person who knows nothing of it takes part in a series of events that lead him to understand the story.
Make the setting of your story one that will contribute strongly to the central effect. Do not give any definite explanation of the events that you narrate. Give your reader such an abundance of suggestion that he will be led to infer a supernatural explanation.
Hold until the last the basic story on which you found your entire narration.
FOOTNOTES:
[27] A reference to Genesis 10:9, where Nimrod is called “a mighty hunter before the Lord.”
THE BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY