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The 5 greatest challenges of a Parent-Writer (and what to do)
If any of you saw my tweets over the weekend you’ll see that I was struggling to stay focused on writing with the children about. Let’s just say they weren’t in the most pleasant of moods and even though they were supposed to happily occupied playing (I gave them a huge cardboard box for goodness…
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#flashfiction #writeprompt & great submission opportunity
Here on the blog for the May Carnival of Creative Possibility I’ll be throwing out writing challenges and prompts and we may even work up to a writing competition later in the month. Here’s an interesting one for you, a writing prompt that will get you really thinking and also give you the opportunity of…
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Being a Writer: Orientation and Perseverence
Orientation is a good part of the battle Whether it be as a beginner writer or one taking up the mantle over and over again against the backdrop of life’s challenges and chaos, it can seem as if the idea of getting to write, or being a writer, or becoming a published author is either…
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#30kinMay
Create wordcount for your new project. 30K – sounds reasonable! As part of the May Carnival of Creative Possibility, one of our activities is producing words. We’ve set a reasonable aim of just shy of 1000 words per day. 30k in May sounds better than 31 but it also gives us a little bit of…
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May Carnival of Creative Possibility
Creativity and Verve Happy May 1st! Whether you view May as the beginning of summer as in the festival of Beltane or as underlining the definite appearance of Spring (in the Northern Hemipshere at least) it certainly is a month that promotes the feeling of energy and creativity. On Head above Water we’ve had creativity…
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What I’m writing now: Eat!
I’ve been tagged by fellow writers Nuala Ni Chonchuir and Paul Carroll to take part in the What Am I Working On blog tour. Due to family circumstances I haven’t been able to be online as much and so haven’t done the requisite forward tagging to other writers. But writers I admire who have a…
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Creativity, Verve and Short Story Submission Opportunities
For various reasons (head Under water) I haven’t posted here in a tremendously long time so this will be a various post to apprise you of some interesting posts and submission opportunities etc. In the particular spirit of this blog and it’s focus on getting into the mindset of creativity, I read this great post…
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Dr Who 50th
Extrastellar Excitment! Will be heading to the cinema later with the whole family to see the 50th anniversary Doctor Who in 3D. Geronimo! For more Doctor Who related amusement see www.myinflatabledalek.blogspot,ie for the domestic adventures of My Inflatable Dalek such as this
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