When Passions are running HIGH you need good advice…from the Brighton Housekeeper of the 1830s
Mrs Finnegan is the Celebrated Authority on affairs of the HEART and ANKLES, but she labours under the cloud that is hanging over The Regency Town House My ankles are my … Continue reading
I feel entitled to write any story I want, in whatever way I want…QUOTES FOR WRITERS Bernardine Evaristo
Many of my characters are completely beyond my experience, but that’s what we do as writers, we write beyond our experience…I feel entitled to write any story I want, in … Continue reading
Free Science Fiction/Speculative Fiction Short Story Competition
This is a fiction competition with an intriguing theme – the evolution of language – and the organisers say it can be about the past as well as the future. … Continue reading
Halloween May be Over but floorboards still CREAK, Spines still TINGLE…the Brighton Housekeeper from the 1830s has the answer
Mrs Finnegan is the Celebrated Authority on affairs of the HEART and HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT in addition to being housekeeper of The Regency Town House. TODAY there is room for one letter … Continue reading
What People are Looking For – Joseph Campbell QUOTES FOR WRITERS
I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.Joseph Campbell
SUBMISSIONS WINDOW – send your fiction, non fiction and poetry to Salt Publishing
For the entire month of November 2020 Salt Publishing are unlocking the windows and flinging open the doors to writers of fiction (novels and short stories), narrative non-fiction and poetry. … Continue reading
ACTORS, BUNIONS and the arrival of SHE WHO MUST BE OBEYED Advice from the Brighton housekeeper from the 1830s
Mrs Finnegan INVITES ALL TO WRITE TO HER FOR ADVICE – NO CHARGE IS MADE – NOT EVEN A FARTHINGAll relies are grammatically correct and written in well-crafted copperplate Theatre … Continue reading
How Reviews Impact on a Writer – Ann Patchett QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it’s really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a … Continue reading
BALL GOWNS and the LACING OF CORSETS – ADVICE from the 1830s BRIGHTON housekeeper
Mrs Finnegan is the Celebrated Authority on affairs of the HEART and HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT in addition to being housekeeper of The Regency Town House. TODAY she adds cutting edge FASHION ADVICE … Continue reading
Books = World says Cornelia Funke QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Books have to be heavy because the whole world’s inside them.Cornelia Funke Image by Maya Nabrowski from Pixabay
When the Days are SHORT and Nights LONG you need ADVICE from the 1830s BRIGHTON housekeeper
Mrs Finnegan is the Celebrated Authority on affairs of the HEART and HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT in addition to being housekeeper of The Regency Town House.More FOREIGN MAIL has arrived on her doorstep … Continue reading
Louise Glück on not knowing if the silence will end… QUOTES FOR WRITERS
I go through two, three years writing nothing. Zero. Not a sentence. Not bad poems I discard, not notes toward poems. Nothing. And you don’t know in those periods that … Continue reading
The DANGER of Slovenly ways if you are self-isolating PLUS a letter from the ICY North – ADVICE from the 1830s BRIGHTON housekeeper
Mrs Finnegan is the Celebrated Authority on affairs of the HEART and HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT as well as housekeeper at The Regency Town House. She is PLEASED to note that letters arrive … Continue reading
What makes Life possible by Ursula K. LeGuin QUOTES FOR WRITERS
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. Ursula K LeGuin Photo by Jamie Street on Unsplash
BRIDGET WHELAN writer 