by Orna Ross | Dec 16, 2012 | Poetry |
again. Are you not mother? That is the question that must be posed and not just to those who work the world with their pants less stuffed, with their arms held aloft when not wrapped round the chores and the children and, yes, round the big boys too,...
by Orna Ross | Nov 14, 2012 | Poetry |
We lie together in a gifted bed knowing the alarm is set to sound, your thighs a seat I'm settled on, mine wrapped warmly round your hand. We burrow in the minutes that remain before the clock will cut in to announce the time has come for us to peel apart. Shall it be...
by Orna Ross | Nov 1, 2012 | The Rest |
50,000 words or more in a month. That's the challenge set by National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). Leave the editing to December, they say. For November, just concentrate on getting out the words. So many per day. Every day. Sound advice. The sort of advice I give...
by Orna Ross | Oct 25, 2012 | Poetry |
A Ritual To Read To Each Other If you don't know the kind of person I am and I don't know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world and following the wrong god home we may miss our star. For there is many a small betrayal in the...
by Orna Ross | Sep 20, 2012 | The Rest |
It's easy to forget the principles of going creative. And even easier to forget to practice. Here's a ditty to help us remember: Connect to all I touch. Hear. Smell. Taste. See. Return to now. Enter what is. Let it be. Allow life to teach what I most need to know....
by Orna Ross | Sep 16, 2012 | The Rest |
The discovery in 2007 of a “bottleneck in the brain” showed that multitasking is not productive. Doing even just two tasks, both very simple, involves negotiating three bottlenecks in the brain. Deciding which we want to give our primary attention to. The...
by Orna Ross | Sep 13, 2012 | The Rest |
The key to creative success is excess, suggests Anais Nin, because creation comes from overflow. “You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. “… Creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to...
by Orna Ross | Sep 10, 2012 | The Rest |
When you set out to create something, the conventional, conditioned part of you sets off fear alarms, in the form of resistance and self-sabotage. Stephen Pressfield's book Turning Pro, talks a lot about this tendency, which he calls resistance, in terms of the...
by Orna Ross | Sep 4, 2012 | The Rest |
Novel Excerpt: “Sometimes, not too often, really not often at all, I allow myself a small imagining. Not a why-oh-why, or a what-if; something closer to a dream. “It is dusk in summer and we are walking towards the lake. The fading light has greyed the...
by Orna Ross | Aug 15, 2012 | Fiction |
Exciting news from Ireland (for history nerds). Secrets of the 1916 Easter Rising and War of Independence have been revealed by a new project from The Bureau of Military History that focusses on eyewitness accounts of the time. How I would have loved these to have...