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Inspiring: Finding ways around dyslexia to become a teacher
Edublogs aims to promote the use of social media in providing educational resources to both teachers and students. Their yearly awards highlight blogs and posts that are working to provide those resources or highlight important educational issues. Michelle Moloney King is a teacher and writer. She also happens to be dyslexic. In this personal and…
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NaNoWriMo in the bag
I’ve been quiet here for a while because I’ve been spending any spare time completing the 50,000 word challenge of NaNoWriMo. I’ve been working on something that I’m very excited about The Exhibit of Held Breaths and for which I’ve been awarded a retreat in the summer to continue work on it. It’s been a…
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#fridayflash Do not forget the girl forgotten
I’m very happy to have been invited by Johanna Harness to post my #fridayflash today on the #amwriting website. This beautifully designed website has plenty of terrific articles by writers who use the #amwriting twitter hashtag to connect. If for any reason, you can’t access or comment on the story there, here it is: It…
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Life on Mars and Getting in the Zone
If this blog has fallen unnaturally silent it is because my writing efforts are being directed towards completing the NaNoWriMo 50,000 word challenge and also blogging about it. It’s going very well over all and I’ve added several posts here on writing.ie with various topics, including Getting in the Zone, Life on Mars (the challenges…
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Maria Duffy – Any Dream will Do!
Back in March I interviewed Irish writer and fellow mum of four Maria Duffy in my mother writer series. I am absolutely delighted to announce that today is the publication day for her novel Any Dream Will Do. It’s been a whirlwind of a year for her, since signing with her Curtis Brown agent Sheila…
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NaNoWriMo Journal on Writing.ie
The folks at Writing.ie have asked me to keep a NaNoWriMo writing journal this year. At the risk of boring you I have agreed to jot down a few notes on my progress, my lack of progress, nasty critic gremlins and so on. So far my early morning regime is working for me but I…
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NaNoWriMo: Ready, Set…
Ah, October 31st, a very special day…..No, not Halloween…the last day before NaNoWriMo begins. It’s also my deadline for having my first 3 chapters and synopsis written and polished for a novel writing competition. (And no, I haven’t finished yet.) I’ve done a couple of posts in the last while for Writing.ie on NaNoWriMo. I’m…
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