writerslife – Geoff Palmer

Writing Tip: Use Zombies to Kill the Passive Voice

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Despite her public persona, Dolly Parton is a savvy business-person, which probably explains a music career that’s now well into its sixth decade.

My late mother thought Gladly was rather a nice name for a bear, but as a child she could never[…]