Category: Writing
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Helping Yourself
I love a good self-help book. They are terrific at making you feel that if you just do this one thing, all your troubles will resolve, your personality will improve and those millions you should be making will flow right to you. Overall the tone is hopeful, encouraging and enthusiastic, exactly what we need in…
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Accountability
I am going to use this blog for accountability in relation to my career as a novel writer. Big statement that. And arguably not quite true. I am a writer alright. I have technically written one novel. I have never sold a single word of my writing, so career is a little ambitious here. So…
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Celebrate All the Things
Finally, after years of pointless hoping, I finally entered the Novel Fair run by the Irish Writer’s Centre.
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Following Miss Yale
A number of years ago my friend Pat came to visit Çanakkale. I was delighted to be able to take her to Troy and show her around the area.
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Aspiration
Generally at the beginning of August each year I decide to enter the Novel Fair run by the Irish Writers Centre. It only requires a summary of 300 words and 10,000 words. The fact that I have no idea, no plot, no characters, is never enough to dissuade me from the attempt. There’s a whole…