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Bits and pieces and congrats
Just heard the fantastic news that Maria Duffy, my first mother interviewee has signed a two book deal with Hachette Ireland. The first book, “Any Dream Will Do”, will be published in November 2011. Huge congrats to Maria! Delightful to hear such news. Maria, like me is the mother of four and if you haven’t…
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Writing Scenes – what is the perfect snapshot?
Recently a photographer came to take a picture of my children to accompany an article for the newspaper in which I had been quoted. He took many, many pictures, altering the configurations and the props. In the end, two photographs of the very many were chosen. The photographer had created far more material than he…
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Imagination and Reality
Go outside and eat a leaf, tear off your clothes and swim underwater, stick your fingers in mud, stand at the edge of a crevasse and feel yourself sway, in summer, autumn cram strawberries, raspberries, blackberries into your mouth, see the stain on your fingers, eat carrots whole from the ground, lie in a darkened…
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Writing: Time for a break?
So we’re not aspiring writers, we’re writers, so we write whenever we can. If we have a full time job we get up early or write into the night. If we stay at home with children we write when they are napping or happily occupied or in preschool or gone to bed. If we go…
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I’m not an aspiring writer
I’ve yet to publish a novel or a collection of short stories. (Update: As of 2012 I self-published a sci-fi comedy & some short stories but I’m still working on the agent & trad deal!) I’m not known in literary circles or seen in bookshops. I’ve been on the radio twice but you wouldn’t have…
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Writing.ie
Writing.ie has launched. It’s the project of Vanessa O’ Loughlin author and founder of Inkwell Writers (inkwellwriters.ie) who gives a wonderful video welcome on the site. Writing.ie is an ambitious undertaking that has so much to offer writers at every level. The site is pleasing to the eye and easy to navigate but there are…
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February Fairytales
Today, check out Eight Cuts Gallery’s new exhibition Once Upon a Time in a Gallery. Fairytales revisited and subverted through art and words. Take your time to travel through the links that will lead you on unexpected journeys and you may find something from me there too…. Visit: Once Upon a Time in a Gallery…
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The sense of warming up
Dragon breath, an aura of chill, the cold nose of a dog, toes the endeavouring forward stepping fellows braving the Arctic extremities, the ice in the lungs, the cold plate of the moon against the tablecloth of sky, the remembrance of snow in all its guises, like sand, like polystyrene balls, like candyfloss, like the…
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Smacky mouthed kisses
I meant to write an Ode to Two Year Olds but he passed by that landmark delicious age but there is still so much to delight in. I hold his chubby hands, almost wrist-less, short arms that he puts around my neck and then he comes at me with one of those open mouth fishy…
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All stones are precious
I picked a worry stone from the beach, it is smooth and glassy to the touch, the inside unimaginably red, the outside mustard yellow. My children hunt for ‘gem’ stones, those pure white, red and yellow pebbles found by the shore and smoothed by the water’s motion. ‘What are the names of these gems?’ they…
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