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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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A Short List of Short Novels

November 26, 2019 Geoff For Readers, For Writers

According to Dean Wesley Smith, the 80,000 word (or longer) novel was an invention of Big Publishing. A typical novel[…]

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Quote: Isaac Asimov

November 25, 2019 Geoff For Writers, Quotes

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. Isaac Asimov As a kid, Asimov got his start reading science[…]

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Asimov: On hard work and writing

November 22, 2019 Geoff For Writers

Isaac Asimov, author of more than 500 books, and not just fiction – his non-fiction books appear in nine of[…]

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