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
Overcoming double vision…Alexander Solzhenitsyn on World Literature QUOTES FOR WRITERS
World literature is capable of transmitting the concentrated experience of a particular region to other lands so that we can overcome double vision and kaleidoscopic variety, so that one people … Continue reading
A Dear Departed Husband Returns from the Past. Or Does He? Brighton’s Regency Housekeeper is is By No Means Certain
Mrs Finnegan is not herself today. She is not sure she will EVER be herself again. Of course, she is still looking after The Regency Town House and its residents. … Continue reading
The Importance of Boring Sentences – Lincoln Michel QUOTES FOR WRITERS
I appreciate the value of the boring sentence. Not, I want to stress, a lot of boring sentences. I still roll my eyes at the type of writer (mostly older white … Continue reading
A Knock on the Door Changes EVERYTHING for Brighton’s Regency Housekeeper
Mrs Finnegan, the hardworking housekeeper at THE REGENCY TOWN HOUSE, was looking FORWARD to an uneventful year in leafy Brunswick Square until yesterday evening. A loud rat-a-tat on her door changed … Continue reading
I have learned to trust in the ordinary darkness of a bedroom…says Doireann Ní Ghríofa QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Whenever my writing snarls itself into a tangle, I always take the same approach—I carry that horrible knot to bed and quench the lamp. Then, I wait. In the dark, … Continue reading
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