Chuck Wendig: A Writer’s Prayer
Chuck Wendig’s Writer’s prayer should be compulsory reading for all writers. Go read it, read it now. I’ll wait… Did you read it? Of course you didn’t. I’ll give you another chance to follow the link… Hillarious right? But true. Here are the concluding lines: I am the Commander of these words. I am the […]
A Response to Kevin Myers Article in Yesterday’s Irish Independent
So I started a new blog and almost immediately forgot the password but inspiration struck and I’m back again. This is a response to Kevin Myers Article “State Support Only lends Madness to Libraries” in yesterday’s (17th August 2011) Irish Independent. I should start by saying I’m not a fan of Myer’s so this post […]
‘Rapeseed’
So, Considering I’m only two weeks away from holding a finished draft in my hands, I thought I’d take this opportunity to explain at least a little bit of what I’ve been at. My work in progress is a novel set in Cold War Ireland form the point of view of a twelve-year-old girl […]
New address
So this has moved to a new address because frankly afunnythinginthelibrary.wordpress.org is just too awkward and hard to remember. I made it up on the spot because I was too lazy to really think hard about it. This is also a bit of shameless self-promotion in a bid to help get my name out there […]
Catch up
So I was sick for most of last week, which means I didn’t write anything at all and had to forfeit €50 (That I don’t have). I’m behind on my reading now too and I was also desperately attempting to find a job, I found volunteer work instead which isn’t quite the same but it all […]
REVIEW: Attila: The Gathering of the Storm by William Napier
Attila: The Gathering of the Storm by Wiliam Napier 2 out of 5 So this is marginally better than the first in the series. It deals with Attila’s return from exile and his gathering of the various Hun tribes to march against Rome. That’s about it. Not much else happens in the plot. In my […]
Word Count-O-Meter
I would like to direct your attention to my new word count-o-meter in the sidebar. I read Writing Fiction for Dummies recently and Ingermanson recommends setting a weekly writing goal and a suitable punishment for not reaching that goal. Unemployed student that I am I’ve set the (perhaps overly ambitious) goal of 10,000 words a […]
Undergraduate Awards & DRHEA 2011
So it’s that time of year again, where I frantically try and compress 3,000 word essays into 100 word abstracts foe submission to the undergraduate awards of Ireland and Norhtern Ireland and the undergraduate research conference run by the DRHEA. Undergraduate Awards for this you can submit up to three coursework essays along with a […]
REVIEW: ‘Smoke and Mirrors’ by Neil Gaiman
Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman 8 out of 10 My friends have been trying to get me into Neil Gaiman for a while. Good Omens, which he co-authored with Terry Pratchett is one of my favourite books. I eventually tried American Gods and hated […]
REVIEW: ‘Ship of Rome’ by John Stack
Ship of Rome: Masters of the Sea 1 by John Stack 7 out of 10 I first read about Stack when an account of him writing this series about the Punic wars and getting a Harper Collins three book deal was published in the Irish Independent. However I’ve been unable to get a copy of it […]