"Nat and his fellow writers were treated like factory workers. A rookie, Nat was in over his head, but Sid [Perelman] helped him prepare a list of technical terms. His first week was spent bluffing his way through one of the company's ideas, a story set in a beauty parlor. He furiously stitched together a treatment, an eleven-page synopsis describing the characters and scenes, and by the end of two weeks completed the first draft of a shooting script. It was amazing to discover himself capable of producing four thousand words a day under pressure."--from Marion Meade's new (and highly recommended) Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010).
(Twentieth in a series. Photo from the Lonelyhearts Facebook fan page.)
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