Recent content by Jo Spumoni

I like the style, but there's points when I don't know what you're talking about. The sentence: "before the boat leaves, but also after, not wanting to make a profile until it hits twelve, planning something far off from the teenagers' original plans" strikes me as quite confusing. Who are these...

My character is an artist in Nazi Germany. He closets himself and no one suspects a thing because outwardly he's the perfect portrait of an Aryan citizen. He's kindly but sort of apathetic, more inclined to worry about his own little section of the world than about people he knows are suffering...

Has anyone read Hitler's List: An Illustrated Guide to Degenerates: Jews, Bolshevists, and Other Undesirable Geniuses? It's by John Minion. If so, do you recommend it? Is it informative? I ask because I'm writing a novel about an artist who is blacklisted by the Third Reich and I'm looking for...

Do you put dialog in a diary entry, or do you kind of just paraphrase what the characters say? Of these two examples, should I do this: "I asked her, 'what do you think?' 'Nothing.' 'Nothing at all?' 'No, nothing.' She seemed annoyed." Or this: "I asked her her opinion, but she said she...

Is the process the same as it would be today, or has it changed? I'm writing a book, and one of the guys wants to become a professor in this time period.

Good evening, all: I'm working on a story that takes place in WWII Germany. The thing is, I'm uncertain where to start. I was thinking of beginning in modern times, with the main character in America with his daughter. Then I was thinking of two possible ways to flash back: 1) the main...