What Editing Does for Your Writing – Iain Maloney QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Most editing is removing scaffolding. You need scaffolding when you build a house, it’s there for support, for safety, for convenience, but the house isn’t finished until all the scaffolding … Continue reading
Does life seem Pointless? Do you Need to Escape to the Country? Brighton’s Regency Housekeeper has the answer
Mrs Finnegan has discovered a pack of letters at the back of the KITCHEN dresser and cannot account for how they got there, but has now issued SWIFT replies to … Continue reading
People are Cruel to Writers – C. JoyBell C. QUOTES FOR WRITERS
People have many cruel expectations from writers. People expect novelists to live on a hill with three kids and a spouse, people expect children’s story writers to never have sex, … Continue reading
Men Who Stare Out of Windows are NOT to be Trusted says Brighton’s Regency Housekeeper
Mrs Finnegan, housekeeper of The Regency Town House, knows that there is a time to laugh and a time to cry and a TIME to prepare for a visitor. I WATCH from … Continue reading
What Happens When You Ban Books…Craig Nelson QUOTES FOR WRITERS
When the Viennese government compiled a Catalogue of Forbidden Books in 1765, so many Austrians used it as a reading guide that the Hapsburg censors were forced to include the … Continue reading
One Lost Earring and a Touch of Blackmail Create Trouble for Brighton’s Regency Housekeeper…and Then There’s the Twin Brothers
Mrs Finnegan is ALARMED that yet again her own problems outdo those of her readers in BOTH quantity and severity. She wishes she could return to the days when the … Continue reading
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
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