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? […]
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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. […]
Editing – ha ha ha
Hello cruel world. I mean, ‘world of possibilities just waiting to be sought.’ See what I did there? I made a negative thought into a positive one. That is what writers do. To be fair, […]
How I Write – Kate Orson
Kate Orson is a freelance writer from England and lives in Basel, Switzerland, with her husband and daughter. She studied creative writing but to date, has not been able to finish the novels she starts. […]
Diary of a one year old – 19 months
Right. Emmm, help? Actually we’re grand. We’re just a little bit trapped. We can’t go many places. Or, anywhere, in fact. You know when the baby is tiny and you’re out and about and you’re […]
How I Write – Joseph O’Connor
Joseph O’Connor is one of Ireland’s best known and critically acclaimed writers. He has written eight novels, including the award-winning Star of the Sea which sold over a million copies. He was awarded the Irish […]
24 photographs you need to write a book about
I posted about a visit I made to Carstown House in Louth recently, an abandoned manor house, that’s overgrown, in disrepair, but still looms on the landscape and stays in your thoughts after you’ve walked […]
Books I’ve been reading: Spring 2016
I’ve made a big effort to read more books as I try to improve my writing. I have a stockpile of books built up now, mostly because I’ve been attending a lot of launches but […]
Nine lessons we can all learn from parenting bloggers
I started my blog before I became a Mammy. It was in the lead up to my wedding and I crimped and crafted over a few blog posts about things that had been on my […]
How I Write – Sharyn Hayden
Sharyn Hayden is a journalist with Irish parenting website www.herfamily.ie, a blogger, a comic actress and a business owner. In 2015, she published I Forgot To Take My Pill, a non-fiction book and honest diary of […]
Doolin Writers’ Weekend. Only 51 weeks to go.
God. Like, good God. What a weekend. I don’t know if I’m tired, or excited or inspired or desperately wondering if I should be bothering writing at all. The talent. The craic. The camraderie. The […]
International Women’s Day: burn the man suit
I spotted her sitting with two men. She had her bottom perched on the edge of a chair, rather like how a 19th century lady would sit; forward, attentive, back straight – ladylike. She was […]
How I Write – Gemma Jackson
Gemma Jackson grew up in Dublin’s tenements and set off at 17 to travel the world. She worked in a variety of book inspiring jobs but it would be two and a half decades before […]