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IN THE HOUR Haiku Planning
I recently learned the most marvelous story planning technique from fiction writer and teacher Linda Cracknell—using haiku to outline/plan your…
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This Month’s Exclusive Poem for Patrons: Long Love + Self-Publishing Poetry Podcast
This month’s exclusive poem for patrons: Long Love is a love poem about the delights of a long-lasting love.
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Allowing Now: The Book and the Poem
I’ve been working on my mindfulness poem “Allowing Now” for a number of years and it’s finally finished. I’ve also been revising some of the poems in that collection.
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Indie Poetry Please! Call for Submissions January 2020
In our monthly self-publishing poetry podcast, Dalma and I read a poem or two submitted by indie poets that month. It’s now time to submit your poems for the January episode.
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Maud Gonne hears of John MacBride’s Execution
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 happens when Maud Gonne hears of John MacBride’s Execution for his part.
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This Month’s Exclusive Poem for Patrons: Soaring
This month’s exclusive poem for patrons is a Christmas poem “Soaring”, inspired by the Chrismas lights on Picadilly, London. SOARING…
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The execution of John MacBride: Ireland’s Easter Rebellion 1916
This is a scene reimagining the execution of John MacBride, Maud Gonne’s husband, for his part in the 1916 Rising. His death was to change life for Maud and Iseult forever.
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If you read this speech at the start of a novel, would you read on?
It’s Friday Fiction here on the blog, so 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’m thinking of opening Dancing With The Wind with one of Maud Gonne’s fiery political speeches.
Question: Would you read on if this was what you found in the first pages of a book?
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This Month’s Exclusive Poem for Patrons: Passing On
This post is about November’s exclusive Patreon poem for patrons: Passing On.
If you would like to read the poem, it becomes available exclusively to my patrons today, for the next three months.
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Blogging Dancing in the Wind, Book Two in the Yeats-Gonne Trilogy
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 weekly in the Friday Fiction slot.
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