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Number 27: A slap from the velvet glove

by Jack Woodville London | Apr 29, 2013 | A Novel Approach

  “That’s not writing; that’s typing.” Jack Kerouac was on the wrong end of that review, one spoken by Truman Capote but, nevertheless, a review. If there is anything more contentious than the relationship between author and critic it would be the relationship...

A Novel Approach: And our winners are…..

by Jack Woodville London | Mar 17, 2013 | A Novel Approach, Articles

  Entering a literary contest is a bit like eating oysters, or riding a vertiginous loop-de-loop at the carnival, or taking a nip of baby food.  The experience will make one queasy, the rewards are uncertain, and somewhere in the middle of the exercise there is a...

A Novel Approach: Number 26 What do writers do?

by Jack Woodville London | Dec 26, 2012 | A Novel Approach

Writers write, of course. So do engineers, judges, shop clerks, and prison guards. What writers do, however, is something different – writers tell us about the world in a new way, a previously unseen way, with a story written from a different point of view, by...

First Annual A NOVEL APPROACH Literary Contest

by Jack Woodville London | Dec 26, 2012 | Articles

Jack Woodville London and the American Authors Association announce the First Annual A Novel Approach Literary Contest. Please join us in this celebration of your creative writing. Here are the rules. 1. JWLBooks has published on-line the writing series A Novel...

A Novel Approach: Number 25 Taking Research to a Higher Level

by Jack Woodville London | Oct 21, 2012 | A Novel Approach

Part Two: “You are to start tomorrow as their maid. If you do well, you will be paid eight stuivers a day. You will live with them.” I pressed my lips together. Don’t look at me like that, Griet.,” my mother said. “We have to, now your father has lost his trade.”...
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