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
What Mrs Finnegan Wanted for Christmas and What She Got
May each journey you take be SHORTENED by laughter May friendship keep company with you every day of the New Year And may you have better LUCK than I did … Continue reading
My Year in Books – Lists Upon Lists
There is something seductive about articles called The TEN Best Books…or 16 Desert Island You Must Visit or even 101 Cats Foods for Fastidious Felines. Lists are like letters, we … Continue reading
My Year in Books – The Craft of Writing
I’m not a huge fan of books on writing that are long on discussion and short on showing. I can take the chat if somewhere all along the line I … Continue reading
My Year in Books – Two From a Small Indy Press
It’s not a coincidence that époque press produced two of the books that made an impact on me in 2023. Since they began a few years ago (it was pre-covid … Continue reading
Mrs Finnegan’s Year in Books
Or what a busy housekeeper reads when two things collide: a good book and a few moments of leisure Housekeepers are not great readers. How can we be with the … Continue reading
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