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Quote: Anne Rice

February 18, 2020 Geoff For Writers, Quotes

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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Quote – Dan Poynter

January 27, 2020 Geoff For Writers

Dan Poynter (1938–2015) was an American author, consultant, publisher, and parachute designer…

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Writing Tip: Use Zombies to Kill the Passive Voice

December 4, 2019 Geoff For Writers, Tips & Tricks

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

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Top of the Pile: Best-selling Fiction Authors

December 3, 2019 Geoff For Writers

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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Quote: John Updike

December 2, 2019 Geoff For Writers, Quotes

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

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Paraprosdokian

November 28, 2019 Geoff Fun

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

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How to Beat “Synopsis Horror” and Quickly Summarise Your Book

November 27, 2019 Geoff For Writers, Publishing

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

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A Short List of Short Novels

November 26, 2019 Geoff For Readers, For Writers

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

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Quote: Isaac Asimov

November 25, 2019 Geoff For Writers, Quotes

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

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Asimov: On hard work and writing

November 22, 2019 Geoff For Writers

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

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