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Hardcover Jack Woodford on Writing Book

ISBN: 0960157417

ISBN13: 9780960157419

Jack Woodford on Writing

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The Last Angry Hack's Classic Thoughts on Writing

From the 30s through the 60s, Jack Woodford (Josiah Woolfolk) was an incredibly prolific author of sex novels (very tame when read today) and he tapped into an incredibly lucrative sideline in 1933 when he wrote Trial And Error, his bestselling nonfiction classic for [aspiring] writers. Woodford followed that with about a half-dozen other books for writers, each one increasingly caustic and realistic about the wrting biz and its aspirants. Jack Woodford on Writing is an excellent anthology culled from Woodford's books on writing, and even includes his penultimate work, Writers Cramp, in its entirety. Woodford was an ill-starred man. His Hollywood career collapsed, his daughter became schizophrenic, Woodford served time in federal prison, and he eventually died in a state asylum. He was described by a Hollywood colleague as an angry man. He was, and his writings about writing deserve to be rediscovered for his highly entertaining, no BS approach to life and writing.
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