Skip to content
Geoff Palmer – Award-Winning Author

Geoff Palmer – Award-Winning Author

  • Home
  • Books
  • About
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram

Tag: WritingTechnique

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

15 Famous Rejection Slips

September 24, 2017 Geoff For Writers

Rejection slips are part of a writer’s landscape. All authors get them at one time or another, and they usually[…]

Tweet or share this:
Read more

Writing with a tomato

July 9, 2017 Geoff For Writers

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

Tweet or share this:
Read more

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[…]

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

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[…]

Tweet or share this:
Read more

Do you know about Reader View?

January 15, 2016 Geoff For Readers

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

Tweet or share this:
Read more

Show, don’t tell

November 12, 2015 Geoff For Writers, Quotes
Tweet or share this:
Read more

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[…]

Tweet or share this:
Read more

Posts navigation

1 2 Next Posts»

Site Search

Follow me …

Free E-Book!

Get Dead Men's Shoes for free!
Dead Men's Shoes

Popular Posts

  • Why is English spelling so weird?
  • Quote: Saul Bellow
  • Literary Putdowns
  • Censored!
  • Cyber Risks: How to Protect Your Device

My Other 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 – 2021 by Geoff Palmer