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Nesta's blog: Writers! Trust your instincts when it comes to your novel.
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Thursday, December 11, 2014. Trust your instincts when it comes to your novel. How much attention should writers pay to criticism, how much to their own instinct. Too much attention and the baby may get thrown out with the bath water, not enough and they risk remaining unpublished. On looking back I remember certain comments made by publisher's readers. On my first novel one took exception to the heroine wearing fluffy pink mules but it was. Protested the reader. 'She's no one to speak after all her.
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Nesta's blog: When do writers best ideas come?
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Friday, December 19, 2014. When do writers best ideas come? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). In the Shadow of the Red Queen - Anthology. Christmas books you can never forget. Writing and selling the monumental lie. Writers can recoup their losses. When do writers best ideas come? Life imitating art and vice versa. A great bedside companion - review by Stephen. Themes that haunt writers. Trust your instincts when it comes to you. If you are too busy to blog then you really are to.
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Nesta's blog: Country Banking moved slowly in the Sixties.
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Monday, February 24, 2014. Country Banking moved slowly in the Sixties. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). In the Shadow of the Red Queen - Anthology. On joining an airline. The art of the short story. When a broken ankle proved a blessing in disguise. A good title is just as important as a good cover. Country Banking moved slowly in the Sixties. Life above the clouds. Where does writing inspiration come from. House-owning obsession or dream? Can life imitate art? Dawn flights and strong black coffee.
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Nesta's blog: When a broken ankle proved a blessing in disguise.
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014. When a broken ankle proved a blessing in disguise. In every disadvantage there are the seeds of a greater advantage. Where have you heard that before? In those days I was composing short stories and, in that period of enforced inactivity, I wrote seven new stories. Amazing how without the pressure of housework or other commitments the words flowed, my muse was never so strong. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). In the Shadow of the Red Queen - Anthology.
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Nesta's blog: Writing and selling the monumental lie.
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Sunday, December 21, 2014. Writing and selling the monumental lie. When someone once asked the writer Barbara Taylor Bradford what a novel is she replied: 'It's a monumental lie that has to have the absolute ring of truth if it is to succeed.' The year was 1988 and she had already written eight bestselling novels so knew what she was talking about. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). In the Shadow of the Red Queen - Anthology. Christmas books you can never forget. Writing and selling the monumental lie.
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Nesta's blog: Christmas books you can never forget.
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Sunday, December 21, 2014. Christmas books you can never forget. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). In the Shadow of the Red Queen - Anthology. Christmas books you can never forget. Writing and selling the monumental lie. Writers can recoup their losses. When do writers best ideas come? Life imitating art and vice versa. A great bedside companion - review by Stephen. Themes that haunt writers. Trust your instincts when it comes to you. If you are too busy to blog then you really are to.
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Nesta's blog: Themes that haunt writers.
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Monday, December 15, 2014. Themes that haunt writers. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). In the Shadow of the Red Queen - Anthology. Christmas books you can never forget. Writing and selling the monumental lie. Writers can recoup their losses. When do writers best ideas come? Life imitating art and vice versa. A great bedside companion - review by Stephen. Themes that haunt writers. Trust your instincts when it comes to you. If you are too busy to blog then you really are to.
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Nesta's blog: Forget housework and keep writing!
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014. Forget housework and keep writing! In more recent years chairing an Irish PEN literary evening in the United Arts Club.Anne Enright was the guest author and I listened with interest to her views on housework but it was her entranced expression as she spoke that made even more impression upon me than her words as she told her audience. 'The car or the kitchen floor will require washing soon again but when you write a story you have it for life.'. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Nesta's blog: Life imitating art and vice versa
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Thursday, December 18, 2014. Life imitating art and vice versa. The title coming from the arrangement her dutiful son had made to pick her up every second Sunday, feast days and her birthday too, of course. This story is from my collection The Straw Hat. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). In the Shadow of the Red Queen - Anthology. Christmas books you can never forget. Writing and selling the monumental lie. Writers can recoup their losses. When do writers best ideas come? Themes that haunt writers.
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Links are maintained with writers organizations throughout the world to advance the cause of writers and of writing in all its forms. Arts Council of Northern Ireland. Bord na Leabhar Gaeilge. Leabharlann na hEireann (Library Association). Irish Translators and Interpreters' Association. National Union of Journalists. James Plunkett Awards Photos. Application form to Join the Union.
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