Shall I Stay or Shall I go? Mrs Finnegan Has a Big Decision to Make
We are ONLY 28 days into a New Year and change of prodigious proportions is afoot. But first let us be CLEAR that now is the time to draw a … Continue reading
Don’t Start with Back Story – How to Work out How much the Reader Should Know and When
Start the reader in “the room where it happens” advises Allison K Williams in a craft essay published in Brevity, the free online literary journal of concise non-fiction. She has … Continue reading
What I was Reading When I was in Hospital…
THIS BLOG has been pretty patchy over the last few months. This is why. In November I went on a week long holiday to the island of Malta with two … Continue reading
Mrs Finnegan has been UNWELL. Did You Notice?
ALAS! I have not been able to pick up my quill for some weeks. Have I been missed?(If the answer is no, may I remind you that good manners do … Continue reading
Blackmail and Butlers – do the Two go Together? Mrs Finnegan Ponders in the Light of New Information
THERE ARE ONLY two things in this world that I hate and one is intolerance and the other is butlers. I endeavour to see the good in all men, but … Continue reading
Big Emotions in the Reader needs Trickery from the Writer
From Writers with LoveExtracts from books, guides and articles that I believe will help make me a better writer. They may help you too…This week DONALD MAASS from The Emotional … Continue reading
Sleep before You Press Send
From Writers with LoveExtracts from books, guides and articles that I believe will help make me a better writer. They may help you too…This week CINDY SAMS writing in Brevity literary … Continue reading
By the time I reached Utah – a writer discovers the creative benefits of driving on her own.
From Writers with LoveExtracts from books, guides and articles I believe will make me a better writer. They may help you too…This week KAREN PALMER Writing in Motion “A car … Continue reading
Chapters: how to end them and start the next
From Writers with LoveExtracts from books, guides and articles I believe will make me a better writer. They may help you too…This week SOL STEIN Solutions for Novelists: Secrets of … Continue reading
No One Likes Hairy Syrup – Wise Words from Mrs Finnegan, Housekeeper & Lady Authoress
Mrs Finnegan finds being a lady authoress exhausting, but is finally back where she belongs – with you. This week she reveals how to make rose hip syrup and the PROPER care of a literary masterpiece
Good News and Bad News from Mrs Finnegan
What do you want first? I don’t need to ask: you are a staunch, sensible body of readers – very similar to myself – able to LOOK calamity in the … Continue reading
You Wait and Wait and Wait then suddenly Mrs Finnegan has an ANNOUNCEMENT
Glorious news! My PRECIOUS manuscript is SAFE in the hands of the printer who has already created a cover of exceptional beauty.It was dropped into my lap by a special … Continue reading
Joy be Unbounded! Mrs Finnegan’s Book is on its Way to the Printer
Dear, Delighted, Devoted Readers did you think this day would never come? I confess that there were moments when I myself DOUBTED if my small enterprise would ever reach fruition. … Continue reading
What Mrs Finnegan Discovered Rummaging in the Master’s Drawers
Late spring is the time for tackling those domestic duties you have been putting off which is why myself and a parlour maid peered into the forbidding CACOPHONY that is … Continue reading
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