by Orna Ross | Jul 17, 2013 | The Rest |
I'm taking a short break from blogging the “Go Creative!” book to post this interview with Tom Evans from The Zone Show about my own creative process. In it, Tom and I talk about: how books get started and how to keep writing the seven stages of the...
by Orna Ross | Jun 28, 2013 | Poetry |
I'm working hard on finishing the Go Creative! books and on target to launch in September but poems are no respecters of working schedules. They appear when they like it and a few have surfaced recently, demanding to be written. And then to be published. So here we...
by Orna Ross | May 5, 2013 | Fiction |
Here's a sneak peek at the novel I'm working on now, The Pilgrim Soul. It's the first in a trilogy about love and loss, based around the lives of the poet, WB Yeats, and the mother and daughter he loved, Maud and Iseult Gonne. The time is Christmas Day, 1893 and WB,...
by Orna Ross | Mar 10, 2013 | The Rest |
It's Mothering Sunday in the UK, the fourth Sunday in Lent. On this side of the Atlantic, the celebration arises out of a Christian tradition. This is the day each year, Laetare Sunday, when people used to return to their “mother church”, the main church...
by Orna Ross | Feb 24, 2013 | The Rest |
I broke my arm on holiday — and lots of other personals have taken over time during the past weeks — including a burglar who made off with my computer and work I hadn't backed up. So I'm just tuning in today to explain that I'm on an enforced go slow,...
by Orna Ross | Feb 3, 2013 | The Rest |
I've been doing my last ever read through of BLUE MERCY as I finalise it for the print-on-demand (POD) edition of the book. While doing so, I've been enjoying the reconnection with two of its major inspirations. One was a place — Laragh in County Wicklow,...
by Orna Ross | Jan 6, 2013 | The Rest |
Happy New Year! I wanted to say a huge , huge “Thank You!” if you bought one of my ebooks over the Reading Season (AKA Christmas holidays). You've helped to put the three novels into Amazon's Top 5 in the British and Irish fiction, drama category. Yes, all...
by Orna Ross | Dec 24, 2012 | Poetry |
I hope you're enjoying a special and happy time over these days. Here is a seasonal poem for you, based on an old Irish mid-winter blessing, that sends you all good wishes.Thank you, as always, for reading — and wishing you and yours the very best for 2013....
by Orna Ross | Dec 23, 2012 | Poetry |
A poem a day is my prescription for a good life. Everyday language is, as Flaubert once said, “a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to — while we long to make music that will melt the stars”. Poetry makes of language that melting kind of...