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A Writing Exercise Courtesy of Harlan Ellison

July 9, 2018 Geoff For Writers

I have a writing exercise for you. I’d like you to produce a short story using the premise “The 102-year[…]

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The Nautical Derivation of Well-known Words and Phrases

June 28, 2018 Geoff Language

Many familiar English words and phrases have interesting derivations, and because England was once a great sea power, a surprising[…]

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Big Publishing: Nightmare on Agent Street

June 5, 2018 Geoff Big Publishing, For Writers

Author Chuck Palahniuk (pronounced paula-nick) – author of Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Survivor, and Choke – says he’s close to[…]

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Facebook: World Censor

May 18, 2018 Geoff Big Publishing

In 1972, photographer Nick Ut took an iconic picture that helped changed the course of the Vietnam War. It won the[…]

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Big Publishing: How Harlequin helped itself to authors’ earnings

May 10, 2018 Geoff Big Publishing

In 2012, authors who’d signed contracts with the publisher Harlequin began to notice something odd in their bi-annual royalty statements.[…]

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The danger of a single story

April 24, 2018 Geoff For Readers, For Writers

A fascinating TED talk from Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie … Some of her books: You’ll find another TED talk from[…]

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15 Famous Rejection Slips

September 24, 2017 Geoff For Writers

Rejection slips are part of a writer’s landscape. All authors get them at one time or another, and they usually[…]

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Too Many Zeros is back!

March 12, 2016 Geoff For Writers

That fearsome robot is just one element in the new cover of my book Too Many Zeros, officially re-released today[…]

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Dylan Thomas: ‘Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night’

January 28, 2016 Geoff For Readers

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage[…]

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The key to success …

October 12, 2014 Geoff For Writers, Fun

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