tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407922151503116046.post6583764890035255449..comments2023-09-26T09:08:59.079+01:00Comments on WOMEN RULE WRITER: HOW NOT TO WRITE A NOVELGroup 8http://www.blogger.com/profile/07924947352624027079noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407922151503116046.post-51137696248805265232010-02-22T13:43:55.929+00:002010-02-22T13:43:55.929+00:00Olive - welcome! Hope the children's writing g...Olive - welcome! Hope the children's writing goes well. I'm teaching the short fic workshop at the West Cork Lit Fest in July. And doing a reding. Maybe see you there?<br />NualaGroup 8https://www.blogger.com/profile/07924947352624027079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407922151503116046.post-32936832721829614042010-02-22T12:10:13.839+00:002010-02-22T12:10:13.839+00:00Hi there,
Came across your writing blog; I'm a...Hi there,<br />Came across your writing blog; I'm a children's writer based in Cork. Haven't read this book yet, so will check it out, it sounds really good!<br />OliveAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407922151503116046.post-90191674708761502092010-02-20T21:17:43.834+00:002010-02-20T21:17:43.834+00:00Dunno that quote B but it rings true.Dunno that quote B but it rings true.Group 8https://www.blogger.com/profile/07924947352624027079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407922151503116046.post-79766731944611994002010-02-20T15:31:21.191+00:002010-02-20T15:31:21.191+00:00Another one to add to the ever-growing list. I lik...Another one to add to the ever-growing list. I like the humour angle: make it humorous and they'll remember it well... there's another part to that quote I can't quite pull together now...? :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06280161801824435219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407922151503116046.post-76847182064407772322010-02-20T08:35:33.847+00:002010-02-20T08:35:33.847+00:00Chico - I know the feeling and I'm Irish!Chico - I know the feeling and I'm Irish!Group 8https://www.blogger.com/profile/07924947352624027079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407922151503116046.post-83657881552466150562010-02-20T08:33:54.184+00:002010-02-20T08:33:54.184+00:00J - I love King's On Writing - it is so no non...J - I love King's On Writing - it is so no nonsense. He works VERY hard. A great read too. NGroup 8https://www.blogger.com/profile/07924947352624027079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407922151503116046.post-69763846902860895772010-02-20T00:27:47.009+00:002010-02-20T00:27:47.009+00:00Thar be a daye when aye wake up speaking in brok...Thar be a daye when aye wake up speaking in broken Irish tongue channellin me ancients thinking but mostly feeling those most tender loves with gobbly guck stuck in the soul raisin muck. I have something else other than that same feelin' for all you soulful sprites with elfish hair Celticly knotted up with wee leprechaun entities dancing on a pin which always gets me right here and totally and wholly animate me soul to river dance.chiccorealhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16902834462795623856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407922151503116046.post-12130564981204554502010-02-19T17:06:13.883+00:002010-02-19T17:06:13.883+00:00sounds good! Have you read the Stephen King one? I...sounds good! Have you read the Stephen King one? It's not funny or anything but I liked itAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05075292153806720848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407922151503116046.post-11574325864032260192010-02-18T21:57:26.841+00:002010-02-18T21:57:26.841+00:00Well, if this book is anything like the comments i...Well, if this book is anything like the comments it has created it's worth a read! I need some fun.<br />ispocloRachel Fentonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10046917627054462214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407922151503116046.post-87133463013167086232010-02-18T18:37:57.793+00:002010-02-18T18:37:57.793+00:00Chico - Jasper is a cool name for a girl.
Just pre...Chico - Jasper is a cool name for a girl.<br />Just pretend someone called you 'the modern day Erma with an edge'. We won't tell!Group 8https://www.blogger.com/profile/07924947352624027079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407922151503116046.post-945878234158948402010-02-18T16:21:21.229+00:002010-02-18T16:21:21.229+00:00Talking about humour, Erma Bombeck's Classic &...Talking about humour, Erma Bombeck's Classic "The Grass Is Always Green Over The Septic Tank" is riotously funny. How I wish I could be the modern day Erma with an edge. Maybe only found outside the suburbs neatly manicured lawns. Naming a girl Jasper, is that edgy?chiccorealhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16902834462795623856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407922151503116046.post-50618579471516333882010-02-18T16:13:33.945+00:002010-02-18T16:13:33.945+00:00Oh, I dunno Nuala, I and millions like me, lurve C...Oh, I dunno Nuala, I and millions like me, lurve Celia and the Alana Partridges of fluffy romantic pulp who service the deep and profound needs honest and plain readers like myself, possess - locked within a yawning ache of sheer desire to lol when facing that plazzy void of faux-intellectual gobble dee gook failing to prance with the innate, no nonsense narrative grace of pink tinged titans like Miriam, and the many sensitive gen-neutral, femminine freindly man tale tellers spinning in a similar style, all that gosh at work in jolly yarns that fill a literate wanting and one's inner desire for candyfloss authors, unafraid to tell it like it isn't, who'll present a pre-collapse yummy all tigerish tales and everyone living happily in perfect economic nirvana, making one pine so for those very happy and proud times I am a stakeholder supporting fluffy luvviness the only true and emotionally open, reflexive hippies have as reality within our neural web, <br /><br />Spontaneous waffle and e-reads, direct to the readers. That's my future fave.<br /><br />prelobv is the word verification<br />indyg was the first word ver.<br />sulned is the third<br /><br />arghh!!Desmond Swordshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08510948482448985966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407922151503116046.post-23596627314137675772010-02-18T13:42:47.797+00:002010-02-18T13:42:47.797+00:00Ha ha, Tania. It sounds like TORTURE! Obviously th...Ha ha, Tania. It sounds like TORTURE! Obviously they have their readers but I always feel those people don't love good writing, just escapist, skim-thru-the-lot, easy yarns. Not my cup of tea, for sure.Group 8https://www.blogger.com/profile/07924947352624027079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407922151503116046.post-41806548893476618752010-02-18T13:40:03.211+00:002010-02-18T13:40:03.211+00:00Oh god! I have just "read" a book exactl...Oh god! I have just "read" a book exactly like the final example, all cliche and stereotype. I won't name it, of course, but I did wonder to myself, Who does enjoy reading something like this? Are the cliches somehow comforting to some readers... or do they just skim over them on their way to the Grand Denoument where she leaves him and takes her candles with her?Tania Hershmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15781460794034586895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407922151503116046.post-30928893344498010782010-02-18T13:03:13.825+00:002010-02-18T13:03:13.825+00:00It's a scream!It's a scream!Group 8https://www.blogger.com/profile/07924947352624027079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407922151503116046.post-36109755590805828912010-02-18T12:23:22.419+00:002010-02-18T12:23:22.419+00:00This given to me a while back, I haven't picke...This given to me a while back, I haven't picked it up yet but will do now...thanks NuKarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10626595624495967954noreply@blogger.com