Mrs Finnegan’s Almanac: A Celebration!
This Almanac is One Year Old! It was on the 28th day of March 1836 at 8 O’ clock in the morning that I picked up my quill and started … Continue reading
What Reading Teaches you – James Baldwin QUOTES FOR WRITERS (AND READERS)
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented … Continue reading
Mrs Finnegan’s Almanac: Rainy Days and Daffodil Days.
I am not entirely sure what happiness is, but I think it must SMELL like Brighton on a daffodil morning when the wind blows from the south and it is … Continue reading
Fiction and Non-Fiction – the Difference Aminatta Forna QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Don DeLillo once quipped that a fiction writer starts with meaning and manufactures events to represent it; the writer of creative nonfiction starts with events, then derives meaning from them. … Continue reading
Mrs Finnegan’s Almanac: Ladies, get your red petticoats ready!
Proposing Two women are held responsible for the LEAP Year tradition that allows women to PROPOSE on February 29th. Queen Margaret of Scotland was said to have passed a law … Continue reading
The Best Moments – Alan Bennett on Reading QUOTES FOR WRITERS
The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular … Continue reading
Rejection Never Ends…Advice from Award-wining Irish Novelist Donal Ryan QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Rejection! Rejection! Rejection! It never ends for a writer, say, Irish novelist Donal Ryan but there is still joy to be had…QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Mrs Finnegan’s Almanac: Nasty Machines and the Husbands who Own Them
Mrs Finnegan reveals a guilty secret hidden at the back of her husband’s cupboard and something he did NOT do which is far worse,
Chop, hack, prune and trim…Nick Hornby QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Anyone and everyone taking a writing class knows that the secret of good writing is to cut it back, pare it down, winnow, chop, hack, prune, and trim, remove every … Continue reading
Discovering All the Different Versions of You – Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Gillian Flynn, the author Gone Girl, says that writing has helped her discover thousands of authentic versions of herdelf
Mrs Finnegan’s Almanac: In Praise of a Fierce Grandfather
A grandfather condemns conditions in the workhouse, a saint allows himself to be bored and Mrs Finnegan is trying to save lost words.
How to Get Your Book Out There – Simon Trewin, Leading UK Literary Agent QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Leading UK literary agent’s pithy, punchy advice about how to get your book noticed
Free International Writing Competition from an Aussie Author with a Sense of Humour
Free International writing competition for people with a sense of humour. And you’re given the first sentence…
Mrs Finnegan’s Almanac: Everything You Need to Know About January
Please don’t write to tell me the date is wrong. I know it is but alas! I have only just noticed. You may write on any other subject and I … Continue reading
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