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Jack Woodford, a decent pulp writer in the first half of the 20th century who also wrote several books on writing and on how the publishing industry works, incl
by tzs 2y ago
Jack Woodford, a decent pulp writer in the first half of the 20th century who also wrote several books on writing and on how the publishing industry works, including "Trial and Error" in 1933 which Robert Heinlein and Ray Bradbury both cited as a major influence in getting their writing careers started, had a nice description of how to plot:
> Boy meets girl; girl gets boy into pickle; boy gets pickle into girl
- wslh 2y agoWeird than "Trial and Error" is not available in Gutenberg.
- autoexec 2y agoIt's likely still under copyright. It hasn't even been a century since the author's death.
- wslh 2y agoI wonder why this work by the same author is available for free [1]. [1] https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74145 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74145
- autoexec 2y agoIt's an earlier work. I see that the release date of the free book was just this year. If Radio Razz entered the public domain this year then it's possible that Trial and Error will be on that site within the next decade.