If you’re someone whose unpublished novel is gathering dust, someone who wonders what sort of people write books, someone who needs inspiration or someone who wonders about self publishing versus traditional publishing, then you should go look up a festival near you. I did that and the Wexford Literary Festival sounded perfect. I was so … More What happens at a literary festival?
‘How’s your blog doing?’ This is the question I am asked most frequently by those who know I write, which isn’t too many in my everyday life. I think the vast majority hear the word ‘blog’ and think it is something I do which must make money. Commonly I’m met with confused faces when I … More How’s your blog doing?
Is there a poem which describes who you are, or how you think? Today is Poem in your pocket day. I first read of this on the blog of Annette Rochelle Aben. She tells us that as part of national poetry month today would be earmarked as a day in which we share a poem, … More What poem describes you?
Are you a writer? A Blogger? Do you write stories, or books? Have you been published? Last Saturday as some of you may remember, I went to a book launch. I loved it. It was like moving to a parallel universe inhabited by people who write. In my everyday life I am known as many … More How do you write?
As the days and weeks are passing through November I’ve found myself to be a little bit whiney and not exactly full of blogging mojo. Next week is Danny’s two year anniversary and I’m hoping come December I’ll be full of inspiration and ready to entertain you all once more, with my wit and storytelling. … More Tomorrow, I love you tomorrow.
We all have many people who share our lives every day, parents, grandparents, partners, family and friends. Their support and love gets us through the good and the bad. This post is not about these people. This post is about the people I have met, who have had a profound effect on my life, and … More If only they knew.
Welcome to Freshly Impressed, where I share with you posts I have read recently which have left me ‘Freshly Impressed’. First up, as we are nearing Halloween, I’d like to feature a post by Beth from, ‘I didn’t have my glasses on’. It epitomises why I love blogging, as everyday I discover something new and … More Freshly Impressed #15
A day or so later than usual, but here are the posts which ‘Freshly Impressed’ me this week. Blogging means different things to different people and as a reader I enjoy a large variety of blogs, from lifestyle to photography, from writing tips to humour. First up is a fellow Irish blogger Socialbridge who recently … More Freshly Impressed #14
Okay, deep breath. It’s not easy to write this without a glass of wine in me but I’m going to (and hope I then press publish). Over a year ago a blog buddy of mine, Duncan,from Madhatters, suggested I put some of my posts together and publish a small ebook for Christmas. He said he would … More To writers and my readers… I’m looking for your help please.
Can you imagine an 80 year old ex English soldier sleeping next to an ex IRA soldier also in his 80s? Well in the ward I worked on back in the late 1980s, this is exactly what happened. Initially they arrived on the same day, two elderly gentlemen, coming in to have the same surgery. I settled them … More Lest we forget?
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