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A novel in 25 words

June 27, 2017 Geoff For Writers

There’s still time (just) to enter Bath Spa University’s Novel in 25 Words competition. Entries close on at 23.59 on[…]

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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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Ian Rankin on the origins of Inspector Rebus

November 13, 2016 Geoff For Writers

Next year is the 30th anniversary of Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus, and the twenty-first book in the series. With Rather[…]

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5 English language myths

February 12, 2016 Geoff For Writers

The problem — and the delight — of the English language is that there is no such thing as Standard[…]

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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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Elmore Leonard: 10 Rules for Writers

October 16, 2015 Geoff Uncategorized

1 Never open a book with weather. If it’s only to create atmosphere, and not a charac­ter’s reaction to the[…]

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30 awful analogies

July 24, 2015 Geoff Fun

As Abraham Lincoln once said, “The problem with the internet is that you can’t always rely on it’s accuracy.” The[…]

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