by Jack Woodville London | Feb 19, 2012 | Uncategorized
Tonight is the end of the second season (in the US) of that corsets and castles gripper, Downton Abbey. Season One (spoiler alert) is fun: when the heir to the entailed title and estate joins Leonardo de Caprio on the Titanic they both wind up on the bottom of the... by Jack Woodville London | Feb 18, 2012 | A Novel Approach
An author must be able to write characters, fiction or non-fiction, who are memorable. But — how does one do it? The answer, briefly, is that for each character who truly is worthy of being in your story or book, you must make him/her a real person, not just a... by Jack Woodville London | Feb 15, 2012 | On the Nightstand
My objective criteria for this category is that the humor must be such that on first reading I began to laugh while enjoying a rising sense of someone’s imminent demise. For example, one that should be on the list but is ‘hor’s de categorie’... by Jack Woodville London | Feb 4, 2012 | A Novel Approach
Writers need more than just something to write about. We need to write those somethings in interesting ways. However, all too often we confine ourselves by the familiar, being limited by our experiences, our acquaintances, and our language. We know this as... by Jack Woodville London | Jan 28, 2012 | A Novel Approach
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