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The Float Boat (St Patrick’s Day Parade 2005)
(Here is the true but amusing life tale of trying too hard as parents to do everything. This is back in 2005, when 3 of the 4 were born and were all under 5.) It was forty minutes to the parade and the homemade boat float wasn’t finished. He was painting it in ‘Forest Green’…
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Bog Body
All that summer she long jumped over wide gaps in the harvested bog. There was nothing to do. Her skin was a vessel for the sun, a honeycomb of cells filled with nectar, the throbbing of insects, the humming of bees. She begins a good way back. She can usually find some…
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Of Beauty and Despair
Does truly great literature have to take after Darth Vader? Does it have to come from the dark side? Do we need to examine sorrow, adversity, the underbelly, the river of tears, the filth and the madness before we can be taken seriously? Books of the ‘light and fluffy’ kind will never be considered literature.…
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A trio of shortlists
Yesterday was an amazing day. I opened my email and discovered that I had been shortlisted by the Words on the Street Publishers for their inaugural WOW! awards for my comedy story Sad about the Plumbers Uncle. My story is now included in the WOW! anthology. The winners of the award will be announced on…
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My Year Zero Valentine
If you haven’t already, make your way to the wonderful Year Zero Writers website, a collective of writers who aim to engage with their readers as much as possible by posting often and by offering free downloads of their work. Recently they invited others to post Valentines on a literary theme. Here is my creation.…
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THE FORTY WORD – Winners
Hello lovely peeps and thank you so much for all the wonderful good wishes for my birthday and most importantly for your generosity in crafting all the forty word stories. I now have the pleasure of announcing the winners from the following shortlist. FORTY WORD SHORTLIST (in no particular order) Ed Hickey: The woman took…
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The Forty Word
When that significant birthday comes along we all take stock, ask ourselves important questions, for instance – will we be an ostrich or a diva? Will we sit in a comfy chair with a lap blanket and document the body bits that are no longer in tip top condition or will we metaphorically see our…
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Treacherous conditions at the keyboard
Tens of thousands of writers today braved sub zero temperatures as they sat at their desks to continue to work on their manuscripts. ‘Their commitment is startling’ said one agent who told me that she continued to receive the usual number of queries and submissions despite the treacherous conditions. In fact, it has been reported…
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Running for my writing life
I did it. I jumped in. Which is why I haven’t been posting for a while. I mean NaNoWriMo, which is the National Novel Writing Month for which many thousands if not hundreds of thousands of crazed people with Obsessive Writing Disorder pledge to themselves to write 50,000 words on a new project in just…
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Who’s Cool
My next post is going to be an indepth psychological analysis of evangelicism and how it relates to writing. (Betcha can’t wait!) But in the meantime here’s this nugget of wisdom from the Four young ones. Er (4yo girl): ‘Boys think they’re cool but they aren’t cool’ R (7yo boy): ‘Boys think they’re cool and…
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