It feels like today is either the 45th of April or the 273rd of January. All I know is that it’s a Tuesday and Ireland is (still) in lockdown. I no longer know how many days we have been in lockdown. It’s enervating. I haven’t wanted to write lately, or I have but I haven’t […]
Take nine strangers, with nothing in common but a love of words. Drop them in a country house in the Boyne Valley. Leave them there for a few days, surrounded by rolling pastures, with a soundtrack provided by a lawnmower, a whistling podcaster, some highly irritated cows, and infrequently-bleating sheep. Cellphone coverage is spotty, the […]
I work with a bunch of wonderful, creative people, and we decided that this year we all want to make time to flex some of the creative muscles we don’t get to use at work. We’ve been doing writing exercises in a few of our weekly meetings, and this week I got to wear the […]
Look at me, turning up again like the bad penny I am. If you’ve ever had to listen to me meander on about writing (in a non-work, possibly NaNoWriMo capacity), you’ll be aware that I’ve been noodling around with a post-apocalyptic concept for a few years now. I keep tackling it from different angles, trying […]
Because I lucked out and got a new job, I’ll be blogging more sporadically than usual for the next while. I haven’t been vaporized, abducted by aliens or placed in cloud storage. I’m just headed back to Galway, without my PC. I should be back posting randomness once I’ve found myself a permanent abode and […]
Aliceshortcake and the Green Shore Conundrum Recently the Absolute Write Bewares, Recommendations & Background Check board has played host to an investigation into a dodgy-seeming “publisher” that popped up on the internet offering a portfolio of (expensive) services to authors in the UK and Irish markets. Over a couple of weeks, the intrepid aliceshortcake (who […]
Yes, I know I haven’t posted in a while (bad blogger, bad), but that’s because I’ve been playing video games actually writing for a change. I’ve hit a bit of a wall with my novel, so I’ve been futzing about with some short stuff in order to keep writing regularly. Messing about with different genres […]
I was meandering through my external hard drive earlier this week, and came upon a story I wrote for a magazine a friend’s boyfriend-at-the-time was setting up. There was only one issue published and this story was in it. I’ve always had a weird affection for this story, but I never bothered submitting it anywhere […]
I’ve written before about what I like to call procrastiwriting, but that post was about all the things I do to avoid writing. As in, actively avoid it. I’ll readily admit to my tendency to procrastinate when I have no-one to answer to, and no deadline looming. I’ve often wondered why I didn’t think of […]
The idea behind this month’s chain was to take a character from the post of the person above you in the chain and use them in a story (they don’t have to be the main character, and you don’t have to keep the same setting or genre, but they have to be recognizable as themselves). […]
