WritingTechnique – Geoff Palmer – Award-Winning Author

A Writing Exercise Courtesy of Harlan Ellison

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

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

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

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

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I do a lot of reading, from books, e-readers and online, but the latter is my least favourite medium[…]

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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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