by Orna Ross | Nov 4, 2015 | The Rest
Emails — and Facebook Messenger, Slackchat, Asana, any way that other people send you tasks, thoughts and ideas — are great for communication, giving you the power to choose what you say, to whom, and when. But only if you use them well. Email (and all communication...
by Orna Ross | Oct 25, 2015 | Poetry
For Wang Wei. And Fiona. Here, autumn has not yet plucked the last of the leaves. Evening mist has nothing to hold but the trees. It’s that time of day, that time of year, when poems come. That ache to be here, to be heard. Surely, soon? You relieve it with love,...
by Orna Ross | Oct 22, 2015 | The Rest
Creativists: Choose to harness the power of the creative process, not out of conviction or faith, but because we’ve tested and verified this process in our own lives. Don’t attempt to explain the unexplainable. We revel in the novelty, complexity and diversity of the...
by Orna Ross | Oct 9, 2015 | The Rest
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by Orna Ross | Oct 7, 2015 | The Rest
What do you think of my new cover? It's by Sophie Devine who was very kindly brought to me by the wonderful Kristen Harrison of Curved House. Click on the thumbnail below to order from Amazon.
by Orna Ross | Oct 1, 2015 | The Rest
Some people think going with the flow means doing anything that happens along. That's not the creative way. If you're saying “yes” to everything that turns up, you're not living from creative intention. You're not making time for meditation, exercise or...
by Orna Ross | Sep 25, 2015 | The Rest
As we head into the busiest book-selling period of the year, there is Self-publishing News a-plenty from my ALLi partners and friends at the ALLi Author Advice Centre. Skip on over to this week's post to discover new data on how many indies are making a decent living...
by Orna Ross | Aug 20, 2015 | Fiction
The Irish Independent caught up with me while I was at the Yeats Summer School in Sligo to talk about the Easter Rising of 1916, what it meant to WB Yeats and what it meant to me, growing up in a small Irish village in the 1960s and 70s, in the shadow of the Irish...
by Orna Ross | Aug 18, 2015 | The Rest
SECRET ROSE is an unusual publication, bringing together two books that were published more than a century apart and by two very different writers: WB Yeats’s book of talismanic short stories, The Secret Rose (1897) and my novel, Her Secret Rose (2015), based on the...