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Tag: Practical advice

Harry Potter and the End of Chapter 3

July 27, 2018 Geoff For Readers, For Writers, Publishing

Earlier this week, J K Rowling posted this on Twitter: Quite coincidentally, a couple of days earlier I’d just started[…]

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Four publishing lessons in four minutes

February 28, 2018 Geoff For Writers, Publishing

In 1995, my first novel, Telling Stories, won the Reed Fiction Award for the best unpublished novel. The prize was[…]

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5 Quotes from Ian Rankin

February 23, 2018 Geoff For Writers

Ian Rankin is author of 21 Inspector Rebus novels along with 20 others. He’s also written plays, graphic novels, short[…]

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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[…]

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The Lester Dent / Doc Savage Master Plot Method

September 10, 2017 Geoff For Writers

Lester Dent was the real name of the author almost all of the Doc Savage novels. (They appeared under the[…]

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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[…]

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Advice from J K Rowling

April 20, 2017 Geoff For Readers, For Writers

When J K Rowling spotted a Twitter comment from @beauty_jackson that read: “HEY! YOU! You’re working on something and you’re[…]

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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[…]

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Lee Child on writing and research

July 3, 2016 Geoff For Writers

A while back I asked Lee Child a question. Not in person, but via a Goodreads author promotion, and he[…]

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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[…]

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