by Orna Ross | Sep 23, 2020 | Fiction |
Do you love fiction? Would you like to help shape my next novel, In the Hour? I now post short fiction posts on Facebook most days–snippets of scenes or dialogue or setting from my next novel, IN THE HOUR, together with some behind-the-book posts. I then flesh...
by Orna Ross | Sep 18, 2020 | Fiction |
I recently learned the most marvelous story planning technique from fiction writer and teacher Linda Cracknell—using haiku to outline/plan your story. She uses it for the short story but I’ve now adopted it for chapter plans—one haiku per chapter to release its heart...
by Orna Ross | Sep 16, 2020 | Fiction |
I'm reissuing my Irish novels in a centenary edition. It's almost 100 years since the events they describe happened and today Ireland is more than half-way through a ten-year program commemorating “the many significant centenaries” of the decade from 1913 to 1923”,...
by Orna Ross | Sep 9, 2020 | Fiction |
I am sooooo keen to get back to fiction, even though I've a lot of nonfiction projects still to finish. So I've devised a way to get a little drop of storytelling into each day. I'm going to go public on writing my next novel and start using my Facebook page as my...
by Orna Ross | Feb 28, 2020 | Fiction |
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...
by Orna Ross | Jan 10, 2020 | Fiction |
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...