Legends of the Burren
I visited the Burren many years ago – it’s an extraordinary landscape and Ali Isaac has captured both the beauty and the stories that lie just under the surface. Cromwell’s … Continue reading
The writer’s style – Robert Frost: Quotes for Writers (and people who like quotes)
Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward. Robert Frost
Do we hate short stories in the UK?
You would be forgiven for thinking that’s true because very, very few collections are published by British publishers. But hold, I hear you say: I like reading short stories…(you did … Continue reading
Graham Greene on why short stories are perfect and novels aren’t – QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
With a novel, which takes perhaps years to write, the author is not the same man he was at the end of the book as he was at the beginning. … Continue reading
International humour competition
In honour of the man beloved by quotation compilers, Mark Twain House and Musuem are running the third annual writing competition. You don’t have to write in the style of … Continue reading
Jane Eyre and the Legendary Gytrash
Originally posted on Mimi Matthews:
Snarling dog from Darwin’s Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals, 1872.(Image Courtesy of The Wellcome Library, CC BY 4.0.) According to Charlotte Brontë’s 1847…
Stephen King on the hardest things to put into words: Quotes for Writers (and people who like quotes)
The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they … Continue reading
Short stories explode – novels smoke, says Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes for Writers (and people who like quotes)
Short fiction seems more targeted – hand grenades of ideas, if you will. When they work, they hit, they explode, and you never forget them. Long fiction feels more like … Continue reading
International short story competition
Le me be frank, the prizes on offer in the Willesden Herald short story competition won’t raise your blood pressure. 1st prize is a one-off Willesden Herald mug inscribed “The … Continue reading
Elizabeth Goudge on what to read in times of trouble QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and readers)
In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried … nothing is so warming and … Continue reading
BRIDGET WHELAN writer 