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 | Oct 25, 2019 | Fiction |
I have done some shuffling on the fiction front and 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’ve already written this story as a film script, now as a novel. Actually two more...
by Orna Ross | Oct 11, 2019 | Fiction |
Below is the opening of “In The Hour”, my next novel. It is the third book in my Irish Trilogy. For more details on the first two books, After The Rising and Before the Fall, see below. If you ever visit Wexford town and travel along the quays from the...