These Are The Hands…if ever there was a book that spoke to our time this is it
These Are the Hands is a collection of poetry about the NHS written by NHS staff: doctors and nurses at all stages of their careers and the other vital – … Continue reading
Birthday Anguish and Weak Ankles…Sound advice and sober reflection from the 1830s
Mrs Finnegan’s Chronicles: the Celebrated Authority in affairs of the HEART and HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT staying alert at The Regency Town House in that South Coast pearl of a town, Brighton and Hove … Continue reading
How you know it’s a good book…Paul Sweeney QUOTES FOR WRITERS
You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.Paul Sweeney Photo by Clem Onojeghuo on Unsplash
Recipe for a perfect marriage and can women write? Should they…? Advice of thorough probity from the 1830s
Mrs Finnegan’s Chronicles: the Celebrated Authority in affairs of the HEART and HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT staying indoors at The Regency Town House in the most salubrious of towns, Brighton and Hove Now … Continue reading
Ready to make your messy inner self plain to see? Donald Maass on what storytellers have to do QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Protagonists and antagonists are fanatics. So are you. Is that scary? Sure, but own that side of yourself and you are less likely to shut it down. I mean who … Continue reading
Mix too much curry powder with a letter from the Mistress… Mrs Finnegan, the 1830s housekeeper extraordinaire isn’t feeling well
As we enter the month of May let us rejoice in everything it can give us. Even if the merry-making has to be rather solitary we can still look forward … Continue reading
Fortune Telling of the unscrupulous kind plus a young man eager to marry for money…ADVICE of unsurpassed excellence from the 1830s
Mrs Finnegan’s Chronicles: the Celebrated Authority in affairs of the HEART and HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT staying indoors at The Regency Town House By reading the moles on my face an old woman … Continue reading
It is never too late to shine; never – George Eliot QUOTES FOR WRITERS
It is never too late, no matter how old you get because anytime or any point in your life you can always have a chance to make a difference. You … Continue reading
Working Class Writers – win with your work in progress
Writers & Artists are running the Working-Class Writers’ Prize again this year, with award-winning author Lisa McInerney as the judge. To Enter Submit the beginning of an unpublished work-in-progress. This … Continue reading
How to Fight greying hair and unscrupulous grocers The Wit and Wisdom of Mrs Finnegan, the 1830s housekeeper extraordinaire
The housekeeper has the care of the linen, of the grocery – dried & other fruits, spices, soap, candles and stores of all kinds. In short she is the LADY … Continue reading
Wild fantasies and an unexpected letter from the Mistress…Most Estimable ADVICE from the 1830s
Mrs Finnegan’s Chronicles: the Celebrated Authority in affairs of the HEART and HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT staying indoors at The Regency Town House Sometimes I have fantasies about things that could not possibly … Continue reading
Lockdown Writing Competition…think short, short, short
The wonderful people at Fish Publishing – who organise some of the best international writing competitions – have come up with a project that tries to capture the strange times … Continue reading
A screenplay…is merely the scaffolding for a building someone else is going to build – John Irving QUOTES FOR WRITERS
There is no (literary) language in a screenplay. (For me, dialogue doesn’t count as language.) What passes for language in a screenplay is rudimentary, like the directions for assembling a … Continue reading
The Wit and Wisdom of Mrs Finnegan, the 1830s housekeeper extraordinaire
My housekeeper’s room is a fortress fit for an ancillary pope. Not so long ago in an ORDINARY week you could have found me here in the evening sipping a … Continue reading
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