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June 9, 2019 Geoff For Writers

Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing,[…]

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Copyright, Contracts, Patreon and Personal Choice

June 9, 2019 Geoff For Writers, Publishing

If you use, or are considering using, Patreon, you might like to take a look at their Terms of Use first. Particularly this clause:

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Writing isn’t easy …

June 2, 2019 Geoff For Writers

Writing isn’t easy and, even after you’ve been doing it for a few years, you’re still a novice. If you[…]

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Using zombies to spot the passive voice

June 2, 2019 Geoff For Writers

Writers are generally encouraged to avoid the passive voice because … well, it’s passive. Take sentences like: My car was[…]

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Things you don’t know you know

May 12, 2019 Geoff For Writers

“Adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun. So you can have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife. But if you mess with that word order in the slightest you’ll sound like a maniac.”

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Neil Gaiman on Piracy

May 12, 2019 Geoff For Writers

“I used to get really grumpy with people because they put my poems up, they put my stories up, they put my stuff up on the web. And I had this belief, which was completely erroneous, that if people put your stuff up on the web and you didn’t tell them to take it down, you would lose your copyright.”

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