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May 24, 2018 Geoff For Writers, Fun

A friend is currently going through this miserable process, so I thought I’d help out … 😉

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William Safire’s Rules for Writers

March 18, 2018 Geoff For Writers, Fun

Remember to never split an infinitive. The passive voice should never be used. Do not put statements in the negative[…]

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Famous Razors

October 22, 2017 Geoff For Readers, For Writers, Fun, Quotes

Razors aren’t just for shaving. In philosophy, a razor is a rule of thumb that allows for the elimination (the[…]

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The stages of a reader

May 25, 2017 Geoff For Readers, For Writers, Fun

Another delightful cartoon from Grant Snider:

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Context is everything! Cats and dogs in the Bible

March 10, 2017 Geoff For Readers, For Writers, Fun

I spotted this quote in a magazine this week … “The dog is mentioned in the Bible 18 times —[…]

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Check your popularity with n-grams

March 3, 2017 Geoff Fun

Y’all know about n-grams, right? Wikipedia nails ’em: … an n-gram is a contiguous sequence of n items from a given[…]

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Literary Putdowns

February 10, 2017 Geoff For Readers, For Writers, Fun, Quotes

In America, only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important,[…]

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Stephen Fry vs. Grammar nazis

July 21, 2016 Geoff For Readers, For Writers, Fun
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Can’t seem to get any writing done today . . .

July 7, 2016 Geoff Fun

… I’m not sure what the problem is …

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Interesting origins

June 6, 2016 Geoff For Writers, Fun

The derivation of well-known words and phrases. Many familiar English words and phrases have interesting derivations, and because Britain was[…]

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