REVIEW: My Summer Reads
So I recently spent a week abroad. I don’t do so good on sun holidays because I burn easily enough in Ireland and I like doing stuff instead of lying down, which I do quite frequently at home for free. Prior to leaving I was told I could only bring five books to keep me […]
Writing Related Procrastination
I admit that these activities are only very tangentially related to writing but they’re two rather simple websites I’ve found that will give you incredibly true vital statistics about your work in progress that could change the course of your writing career Lulu Titlescorer It tells you the statistical likelihood of your novel becoming […]
Preliminary illustration for ‘Rapeseed’
My little younger sister sketched this the other day. She hasn’t finished reading Rapeseed yet but in the space of five minutes (no exaggeration) she doodled this. I got really excited and took a picture with my phone to put up here so I apologise for the poor picture quality. In a few minutes she summed up […]
REVIEW: ‘Once More With Footnotes’ by Terry Pratchett
I don’t normally read short story collections. I read plenty of short stories but it’s only recently, since foraying into short story writing territory myself, that I find myself reading collections from cover to cover. I used to discriminate, read the shorter ones if I was pressed for time, or the title story, or the one that […]
My Writing Playlist
I find it difficult to write without music. This could be because my first successful serious attempt at writing took place last summer while I was still living at home. I’d always dabbled in writing but I re-read Stephen King’s On Writing and decided to take his work ethic literally and write 2,000 words a […]
Game of Thrones Fatigue
So Season 2 is drawing to a close. What have we learned? Peter Dinklage is awesome (not that we needed to be reminded), this season is much less anchored without Sean Bean, and boobies solve everything. Awhile ago I wrote a post about prostitution in the first few books basically trying to come up with […]
Book Launch
My class is finally launching the print version of our anthology this Thursday. everybody is invited: On the night there will be wine (lots of that), readings (plenty – everyone is reading a 2 minute section from their piece in the collection), finger food (some of that), and Paul Murray! (there can only be one) Everything […]
Malling-Hansen Writing Ball
I. Want. One. I just discovered the Malling-Hansen Writing Ball and I have never wanted something as much in my life. It’s so beautiful, and steampunk and just damn cool. It might take ten times longer but imagine writing a novel on a machine like this? It’s one of many unusual typewriters out there, but […]
I Quit
So I took part in the GoodReads Reading Challenge last year and without thinking I signed up again this year. It is only now, five months into it, that I realise exactly why I didn’t like it: I already read quite a lot. I don’t need some pseudo pressure to read more Gamification works for […]
Public Reading at Cúirt
So it’s been awhile since I posted (I know, I know, don’t look at me like that). As cheeky as it might be to not post for ages and then do some self-promo here we are, at this intersection of business and cheekiness. My class is launching their anthology at the Town Hall bar in […]