Plotting: How To Have A Brain Child

by Jack Woodford

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352 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2007

Reviews

[Tom Britz · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book on writing was written in 1939 and its author, though at the time a well known author, has been largely forgotten. I read this more from a historical sense than a sense of trying to learn something to apply to my own writing, which is how I was able to keep reading, if only as sporadically as I did. Jack Woodford comes across as bigoted and opinionated, and at the same time funny and truthful. By bigoted, I don't mean racial at all, but against the readership of the magazines in his time. He considered them all to be idiots.
He does come out with some good advice among all his pet peeves and rants. Such as know what the editor expects by reading the magazine. Also he cautions to take writing as you would any musical instrument, by practicing. Musicians do not keep their instruments in the cases until the night of their performance, they continually practice. And so should you, the writer.