Skip to content
Geoff Palmer – Award-Winning Author

Geoff Palmer – Award-Winning Author

  • Home
  • Books
    • All Books
    • Bluebelle Investigations
      • Private Viewing
      • Private Lives
    • Forty Million Minutes
      • Too Many Zeros
      • Lair of the Sentinels
      • The Man with the Missing Jaw
    • Standalone Novels
      • Payback
      • Telling Stories
    • Nonfiction
      • How to Write a Book
  • About
    • About
    • Contact Geoff
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest

Tag: writing process

A Writing Exercise Courtesy of Harlan Ellison

July 9, 2018 Geoff For Writers

I have a writing exercise for you. I’d like you to produce a short story using the premise “The 102-year[…]

Tweet or share this:
Read more

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[…]

Tweet or share this:
Read more

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[…]

Tweet or share this:
Read more

J K Rowling on rejection slips (and more!)

December 3, 2015 Geoff For Writers

A fascinating interview with J K Rowling (AKA Robert Galbraith) in The Guardian. J K Rowling on rejection slips: …[…]

Tweet or share this:
Read more

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.[…]

Tweet or share this:
Read more

The Myth of The Lazy Writer

August 5, 2015 Geoff For Writers, Publishing

Hugh Howey, writing in Publishers Weekly; The hardest part of getting a book published is the actual writing. All it[…]

Tweet or share this:
Read more

The benefit of my experience

June 12, 2015 Geoff For Writers, Quotes

Or how John Steinbeck kept from going nuts … … let me give you the benefit of my experience in[…]

Tweet or share this:
Read more

Why KDP is for chumps

April 17, 2015 Geoff Uncategorized

Hugh Howey, best-selling author of Wool and numerous other novels and novellas, admits to being a chump. For over 20[…]

Tweet or share this:
Read more

Quotes: Margaret Atwood

October 3, 2013 Geoff For Writers, Quotes

Writing is work. It’s also gambling. You don’t get apension plan. Other people can help you a bit, butessentially you’re[…]

Tweet or share this:
Read more

Site Search

Follow me …

Popular Posts

  • Quote: Don DeLillo
  • 5 Quotes from Ian Rankin
  • NaNoWriMo: Day 15 – Past the halfway point
  • Why is English spelling so weird?
  • WREMO – An on-going disaster

Books

Private Viewing Private Lives Private Nightmares
Payback Telling Stories How to Write a Book
Too Many Zeros Lair of the Sentinels The Man with the Missing Jaw

Subscribe

Please wait...

Thanks for subscribing!

Site contents © 2013 – 2022 by Geoff Palmer