amwriting - Geoff Palmer - Award-Winning Author

Whatever happened to Eleanor Catton?

300 drafts, seven years, and plenty of crying, apparently.

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

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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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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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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 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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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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