by Jack Woodville London | Nov 7, 2014 | Articles
“What I find hard about writing,” Nora Ephron said, “is the writing.” There’s a difference between writing and typing. Writers produce. Typists reproduce. Okay, that’s a bit harsh. Writers believe that a story worth telling is worth telling well. Writers believe that... by Jack Woodville London | Oct 31, 2014 | Articles
Good book chapters are like bad treasure maps. They will lure you in. They will lead you through uncharted territory. Yet, at the end, they will not yield the treasure—they will just make you want to continue the search. What Is the Structure of Book Chapters?... by Jack Woodville London | Oct 31, 2014 | Articles
A truth: the planning of the story continues until the last galley is ripped from your hands and the printer won’t take any more calls from the publisher, the editor, or you. It continues to the very, very end. A hard truth: writing a book is work. In many respects,... by Jack Woodville London | Oct 21, 2014 | Articles
Readers who have some passing knowledge of literature might be startled when in reading The Three Musketeers they encounter a passage in which D’Artagnan refers to Gulliver’s Travels. The dilemma is that The Three Musketeers is set more than a hundred years before... by Jack Woodville London | Oct 8, 2014 | Articles
The United States declared war on Germany on April 1, 1917. Germany had offered to return Texas and the other border states to Mexico if it would join the war on Germany’s side. Germany also announced that it would resume unrestricted submarine warfare. The...
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