writerslife – Geoff Palmer – Award-Winning Author

Punning around with Tom Swifties

Tom Swifties are puns that turn adverbs into punchlines.

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Some years ago, acclaimed author and former journalist Jim Crace published, with tongue firmly in cheek, a couple of pieces[…]

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“Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don’t get it you will[…]

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I don’t know why, but I just can’t seem to get any writing done today.

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A wholesaler of pencil-sharpeners, Edgar Rice Burroughs knew nothing of writing when he penned his first story…

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Cockney rhyming slang is fun, silly, and surprisingly rude.

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Gustave Flaubert’s letters are considered one of the finest bodies of letters in French literature.

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Anne Rice is author of 27 books and best known for her Vampire Chronicles series which began with Interview with the Vampire in 1976.

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

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