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Creative Writing: Excerpts
Posts In This Category Are Excerpts From My Books
Help me develop my new novel: IN THE HOUR
Do you love fiction? Would you like to help shape my next novel, In the Hour? I now post short…
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Friday Fiction: Iseult Gonne and Lucien Millevoye Take Tea
Maud and Iseult Gonne are living in Normandy, taking refuge from the war in Paris, when they hear that John MacBride, Maud’s husband, has been executed. This leaves Maud frantic to get back to Ireland. She dispatches Iseult to London, to fetch their friend, the poet Willie Yeats.
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Maud Gonne hears of John MacBride’s Execution
The story has shifted to 1916. Maud and Iseult are living in Normandy, as the first world war wages and in Dublin, Irish freedom fighters have organized a botched insurrection. Many of their Irish friends and acquaintances were involved. This extract describes what happens when Maud Gonne hears of John MacBride’s Execution for his part.
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The execution of John MacBride: Ireland’s Easter Rebellion 1916
This is a scene reimagining the execution of John MacBride, Maud Gonne’s husband, for his part in the 1916 Rising. His death was to change life for Maud and Iseult forever.
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If you read this speech at the start of a novel, would you read on?
It’s Friday Fiction here on the blog, so I’ll be blogging Dancing in the Wind, Book Two in the Yeats-Gonne Trilogy here with weekly extracts in the Friday Fiction slot.
I’m thinking of opening Dancing With The Wind with one of Maud Gonne’s fiery political speeches.
Question: Would you read on if this was what you found in the first pages of a book?
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Friday Fiction. In The Hour First Chapter
Friday is Fiction day on the blog. Here is the prologue to In The Hour: The Third Book in the Irish Trilogy.
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Friday Fiction: A Historical Literary Dinner with Ezra and Dorothy Pound, WB Yeats, Iseult Gonne and Georgie Hyde Lees
This is an extract from Dancing In The Wind, the second book in my WB Yeats trilogy. It is narrated by…
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“Just Do It”: Friday Fiction: 2018 Week 47
Friday fiction: Just Do It is an extract from After The Rising, my first novel and the first book in the Irish…
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“Just Be Yourself” Friday Fiction: 2018 Week 46
Friday fiction: Just Be Yourself is an extract from Below The Fall, the second book in the Irish trilogy. Jo…
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Friday Fiction: Sneak Peek of my Forthcoming Novel: Dancing In The Wind
Excerpt from: Dancing In the Wind: Chapter 3 The story so far: Having rejected, and been rejected by, the poet…
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