Hilary is a well-known mountain climber . The daily terror newspaper offers her $10000 for her life story if she wills write it . Without the assistance of a ghost writer she writes a story and assigns all her right title and interest in the copyright for $10000 to the Daily Terror. The story is published and she is paid. She has never written a story before. She also sells the manuscript to the Mitchell Library for $5000 and several photographs that she took while mountain climbing for which she receives $2000