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
Mind Your Language if You Want to Keep Your Job, says Brighton’s Regency Housekeeper
It would be wrong to say Mrs Finnegan is back to normal. How could she be when her ENTIRE future still hangs in the balance? However, she is bolstered by … Continue reading
Small publishers are for risk, for poetry…for the future, said Cynthia Ozick QUOTES FOR WRITERS
They (small press publishers) concentrate on making room: for eccentricity, for risk, for poetry, for the odd essay and the odder fiction; for the future. Unexpectedness is what the small … Continue reading
Brighton’s Regency Housekeeper Hates Raisins, Education for Young Ladies and a Knock on her Door Late at Night
Mrs Finnegan remains the loyal, reliable and hard-working Housekeeper at The Regency Town House and continues to GIVE pithy and pertinent advice to readers but…her mind is ELSEWHERE. NOW MY … Continue reading
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