Return to Slimming World: the ‘journey’ continues
Oh hello Slimming World. My old friend. My spray on, low fat, fruit in the morning instead of biscuits, FWEND. To be fair our relationship rekindling had been coming a while. There was the weight […]
2016
How I Write – Gillian McAllister
Gillian McAllister is an author, due to be published by Penguin next year, and a lawyer. She goes by the name Gilly, blogs at BillyGean.co.uk and lives in Birmingham with her very funny boyfriend and […]
Eight ways the spammers try to GET YOU
We’re all familiar with spam. If you’re of a vintage like myself you would have started receiving it in the 90s to your yahoo or hotmail account. (Remember those!?) Before that, the closest we would […]
10 places you need to wear a shirt dress to
Is it a shirt? Is it a dress? Does it belong in his or my wardrobe? I LOVE shirt dresses. I don’t know where the penchant for them came from, but I have a few […]
How not to be a successful blogger
Do you ever try and further yourself and come out of it feeling like giving up? Like when you go to the gym but after three classes, you forget to go back and put on […]
How I Write – E.R. Murray
Elizabeth Rose Murray lives in West Cork where she writes, fishes, and grows her own vegetables. Her debut novel for children aged 8–12, The Book of Learning – Nine Lives Trilogy 1 was chosen as […]
How I Write – Catherine Ryan Howard
Catherine Ryan Howard was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1982. Prior to writing full-time, Catherine worked as a campsite courier in France and a front desk agent in Walt Disney World, Florida, and most recently […]
Diary of a one year old: 20 months
I was thinking about not writing an update this month. I just didn’t feel like it. I have the Mammy moods – probably brought on by the latest trudge of cooking, cleaning, wakening and changing […]
How I Write – Adele O’Neill
Adele O’ Neill has just completed the first draft of her debut novel Accidental Secrets. Having written in secret for years she has only recently admitted to being a writer as she prepares for the […]
Netflix: saving parents’ sanity one Disney movie at a time
I think I’m done with TV. Children’s TV channels get switched on in our house as soon as the child is awake and don’t go off until she’s gone to bed. She knew what the […]
How I Write – Henry McDonald
Henry McDonald is Ireland Correspondent for The Guardian and The Observer newspapers, has written for The Irish News, Evening Press, The Sunday Times, GQ, The Spectator and the Belfast Telegraph and is a journalism lecturer […]
Seven steps to writing your first novel draft
I feel like I should almost apologise before I start. My novel draft is approximately four weeks old. Why should I be writing about how to achieve something that I just about achieved myself? Why? […]
How I Write – Michelle Coyne
Michelle Coyne won the Listowel Originals Short Story Award 2015 and placed second in the 2016 Doolin Writers’ Weekend Short Story Competition. She was shortlisted for Fish Publishing Flash Fiction prize 2015, and achieved third […]
Read my winning story. Kind of.
DIN DIN DIN. My story Branding Day which was a finalist in the Ernest Hemingway Flash Fiction Prize has now been published by Fiction Southeast and is available to read in the article link below. […]