I 'll help you along until you can do them by yourself . You ought to cultivate your imagination , you know . Miss Stacy says so . Only we must take the right way . I told her about the Haunted Wood , but she said we went the wrong way about it in that . '' This was how the story club came into existence . It was limited to Diana and Anne at first , but soon it was extended to include Jane Andrews and Ruby Gillis and one or two others who felt that their imaginations needed cultivating . No boys were allowed in it -- although Ruby Gillis opined that their admission would make it more exciting -- and each member had to produce one story a week . `` It 's extremely interesting , '' Anne told Marilla . `` Each girl has to read her story out loud and then we talk it over . We are going to keep them all sacredly and have them to read to our descendants . We each write under a nom-de-plume . Mine is Rosamond Montmorency . All the girls do pretty well . Ruby Gillis is rather sentimental . She puts too much lovemaking into her stories and you know too much is worse than too little . Jane never puts any because she says it makes her feel so silly when she had to read it out loud . Jane 's stories are extremely sensible . Then Diana puts too many murders into hers . She says most of the time she does n't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them .
I mostly always have to tell them what to write about , but that is n't hard for I 've millions XXXXX ideas . ''
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