How I write – Andrea Mara
Andrea Mara is a freelance writer and blogger, who lives in Dublin with her husband and three children. She attempts – often badly – to balance work, family and writing, then lets off steam on […]
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Seven writing competitions you should enter in 2016
I’ve written before about coming runner up in a writing competition. I was eleven. The competition was organised by An Post. I won a luminous yellow t-shirt with a green dinosaur on it. And I […]
The End. Book written. Now what?
Oh hello little blog. You are still here. Staring at me blankly. Tapping your foot. Throwing your bloggy arms up to heaven and saying ‘where were you?’ Well, frankly, it’s not you. It’s me. I’ve […]
Five reasons you should attend a writer’s conference at least once in your life
Last week I attended the Books Go Social writer’s conference in the Irish Writers’ Centre. Back in the day when I had less grey hair and went drinking mid-week (yes it was GREAT craic) I […]
Clackety clack, the keyboard talks back
Well, we’re getting there. Or somewhere. We’re definitely going to a place called ‘there’. This has mostly because I haven’t been going anywhere. If you know what I mean. This weekend I’ll stop the keyboard […]
Keeping up with the keyboard
Things have been very busy at LadyNicci HQ this week. There was some recovery from the wonderful IPB Awards and lots of follow up too. I love to network and I’ve met so many interesting […]
It is Easter. We got Easter Eggs: The start of a love affair with the written word.
In the About Me section of LadyNicci.com I describe my earliest memory of writing. Or at least the evidence I have found of this writing. I discovered it in an old diary, written in green […]
A little update on the writing and the Irish Parenting Blog Awards
Things have been pretty busy of late. In a good way. I made a small resolution at the start of January to ‘write more’. That was it. No big promises to myself about targets and […]
And so… I shall write a book!
Last week I had the opportunity to appear on new Irish parenting website www.herfamily.ie as a guest blogger. I’d seen the site advertised on Facebook a few days after its launch and was dying to […]