Give Me Writers with Calloused Hands…Doug Murano QUOTES FOR WRITERS
I get tired of “under 40” lists. Show me someone who got their PhD at 60 after losing everything. Give me the 70-year-old debut novelist who writes from a lifetime … Continue reading
Writing Opportunity — Residency for Non-fiction Writers
FIVE very fortunate non-fiction writers will be awarded a week-long residency in Scotland – to be precise they will live in off-grid Bothys on the Isle of Eigg or in … Continue reading
What is this Husband Doing Once a month? Brighton’s Regency Housekeeper BELIEVES she has the answer…
Mrs Finnegan IS BACK doing what she does best: guiding the giddy, aiding the apprehensive and directing the desolate. HER letterbox is always OPEN. She also keeps The Regency Town House ship … Continue reading
What You Learn from Reading Aloud – David Perez QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Reading aloud engages the senses, makes us think of rhythm, narrative flow, and stillness; connects us with how our words truly sound. Reading aloud slows us down. When we read … Continue reading
Brighton’s Regency Housekeeper Dispenses Advice and Finds a Diary Where Her Name is often Written LARGE
Mrs Finnegan is putting the tribulations of the last few weeks behind HER and throws herself into her work as Housekeeper at The Regency Town House only there appears to … Continue reading
A Quick Note to Regular Readers Who MAY have Noticed…
…that I have broken the habit of a decade (yes! that long) and published THREE insightful quotes about writing and being a writer this Sunday instead of the usual mean-minded, … Continue reading
For Most People Most of the Time it Takes Years to Write a Book – Annie Dillard QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Out of a human population on earth of 4.5 billion, perhaps 20 people can write a serious book in a year. Some people lift cars, too. Some people enter week-long … Continue reading
Humour is an essential part of writing – Maeve Higgins QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Comedy belongs in every piece of writing — humour is not a dodge or a distraction or a cheap trick, it’s an essential part of being alive, and as such, … Continue reading
A life Changing Question – Sandi Toksvig QUOTES FOR WRITERS
When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. “This is often considered to … Continue reading
The Absence of Brighton’s Regency Housekeeper EXPLAINED and a Warning to Widows ISSUED
Mrs Finnegan craves your indulgence. Mrs Finnegan WOULD like to apologise. Mrs Finnegan BEGS you to remember that last week was the FIRST time an episode of her POPULAR chronicle … Continue reading
Why Doing Other Things is a Vital Part of Writing Jessie Greengrass QUOTES FOR WRITERS
For days I would spend my writing time at my computer, typing and deleting the same sentence over and over again, unable to understand why it wouldn’t come good—nearly in … Continue reading
We Are All Animals says Heather Durham QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Writing the other is a delicate business; we’ll never truly know what it’s like to experience the world from inside another’s skin. We’ll sometimes get it wrong. But when writing … Continue reading
Brighton’s Regency Housekeeper Makes SHOCK ANNOUCEMENT after Advising on Fish and Young Love
In honour of St Valentine Mrs Finnegan has chosen a bouquet of LOVE LETTERS to share with her loyal READERS . For the time being at least, she remains the … Continue reading
Fiction writers and filmakers love it but do we always need to write Trauma into our stories? Parul Sehgal QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Trauma has become synonymous with backstory, but the tyranny of backstory is itself a relatively recent phenomenon—one that, like any successful convention, has a way of skirting our notice. Personality … Continue reading
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