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Over-excited Puddings and Other Odd Origins

February 19, 2020 Geoff For Readers, Fun, Language

Whether you’re miffed, waffling, ticket-boo or taking the Mickey, the English language is full of words with odd derivations. Just don’t pop your clogs before reading this…

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Quote: Anne Rice

February 18, 2020 Geoff For Writers, Quotes

Anne Rice is author of 27 books and best known for her Vampire Chronicles series which began with Interview with the Vampire in 1976.

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Four Candles

January 28, 2020 Geoff Fun, Language

Here’s a blast from the past to brighten your day …

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Quote – Dan Poynter

January 27, 2020 Geoff For Writers

Dan Poynter (1938–2015) was an American author, consultant, publisher, and parachute designer…

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Update Windows NOW!

January 19, 2020 Geoff Security, Tech Matters

If you’re running Windows 10 … well, you have my sympathy. But that aside, you need to patch your system[…]

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Writing Tip: Use Zombies to Kill the Passive Voice

December 4, 2019 Geoff For Writers, Tips & Tricks

If a sentence still makes sense when you can tack the words “by zombies” on the end, it’s in the[…]

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Top of the Pile: Best-selling Fiction Authors

December 3, 2019 Geoff For Writers

With just 42 books of plays and poetry, William Shakespeare tops the list of best-selling fiction authors with estimated sales[…]

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Quote: John Updike

December 2, 2019 Geoff For Writers, Quotes

I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgement[…]

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Paraprosdokian

November 28, 2019 Geoff Fun

According to Groucho Marx, “Time flies like the wind, but fruit flies like bananas.” Marx was a master of paraprosdokian;[…]

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How to Beat “Synopsis Horror” and Quickly Summarise Your Book

November 27, 2019 Geoff For Writers, Publishing

How do you summarise your book in a couple of sentences? Impossible, right? You’ve written sixty-, seventy-, eighty-thousand words or[…]

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