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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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The Lester Dent / Doc Savage Master Plot Method

September 10, 2017 Geoff For Writers

Lester Dent was the real name of the author almost all of the Doc Savage novels. (They appeared under the[…]

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Writing with a tomato

July 9, 2017 Geoff For Writers

The Pomodoro Technique is a method of time-management many writers find useful. It was developed by Francesco Cirillo in the[…]

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Advice from J K Rowling

April 20, 2017 Geoff For Readers, For Writers

When J K Rowling spotted a Twitter comment from @beauty_jackson that read: “HEY! YOU! You’re working on something and you’re[…]

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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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Lee Child on writing and research

July 3, 2016 Geoff For Writers

A while back I asked Lee Child a question. Not in person, but via a Goodreads author promotion, and he[…]

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Bad writing for beginners

May 26, 2016 Geoff For Writers

Toby Litt on bad writing: Bad writing is mainly boring writing. It can be boring because it is too confused[…]

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Five quotes on writing from Ian Rankin

April 17, 2016 Geoff For Writers, Quotes

I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We’re still playing imaginary games, with our[…]

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Seven things writers should remember

October 2, 2015 Geoff For Writers

A gentle reminder from Joe Konrath … This post goes out to no one in particular for no particular reason.[…]

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Secret writer’s tools – The G&O Style Guide

September 17, 2015 Geoff Fun

Pacman or Pac-Man? Phony or phoney? Post-modern or postmodern? At some point in your writing you’re going to need a[…]

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