Category Archives: writing

Dear Author…

Posted on May 17, 2013 by

So don’t read your reviews. Sooner or later you will have one of those moments of lonely (possibly drunken) solipsism which led to you irretrievably embarrassing yourself on the internet.

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*punches air in triumph*

Posted on April 7, 2013 by

I’m so horribly behind in answering my fan-mails. Seriously I should be shot. I can only apologize (again), and promise (again) that I’ll catch up soon. BUT I got two separate messages this morning that so filled me with glee and pride and triumph … Continue reading →

Posted in Moorehawke, writing | Tagged , , , | 2 Comments

Palmerstown Community School Graphic Novel Project. The final round up.

Posted on March 14, 2013 by

When I first sat down with the students of Palmerstown community college and explained the process we were about to embark on, I told them that finishing was entirely up to them. I wasn’t there to crack a whip over … Continue reading →

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Niggle niggle niggle… AH!

Posted on February 23, 2013 by

I’ve been poking at and prodding, and returning over and over to this particular tiny section of dialogue in the WiP knowing that something, somehow was just not working. I knew the scene itself worked in terms of the traits … Continue reading →

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Mostly editing today…

Posted on February 22, 2013 by

…going over what’s come before before moving on. I’m a slow writer, always polishing, polishing as I go. Sometimes that’s frustrating but mostly it’s satisfying. Here’s a small section from today’s fiddlings: I thought about her all day – as … Continue reading →

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In future I shall have her bake a cake.

Posted on February 18, 2013 by

Grrrr. I’ve just tolerantly smiled my way through an e-mail lecture on how Wynter ‘betrayed’ Christopher by concentrating more on politics than on his feelings, and how she ‘doesn’t deserve his love’ – only to find I wasn’t, as I … Continue reading →

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Snow, Writing & Palmerstown CS Graphic Novel Project

Posted on January 18, 2013 by

So this is what it looks like outside my window at the moment! (Vurry pretty, though potentially quite damaging to tonight’s planned trip to Dublin and  popcorn-guzzling enjoyment of Les Mis.  Ah well…) I won’t blind your eyes with an interior … Continue reading →

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Yippeee… and here we go again!

Posted on December 7, 2012 by

Much to my and my editors extreme shock I’ve finished The Vast Edit with two weeks to spare! Cue Mssrs Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, here for the sole purpose of expressing my joy… I had fully intended to take … Continue reading →

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Nary a dog will be fed nor child washed til Christmas…

Posted on November 21, 2012 by

Behold my kitchen table. See it contains all I need to bully my vast behemoth of a novel into something rather more readable and good. To the right of screen, the notes, letters, timelines and character sheets upon which my beloved Ms Elise … Continue reading →

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WiP Wordle

Posted on October 3, 2012 by

Heee. I should be working ( and I will be. I SWEAR IT. Any minute now I’m about to settle down and pump out today’s requisite word count) but I got a teensy bit distracted. At the weekend writing course … Continue reading →

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