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Tell Your Own Story: Writing & Me
Make Your Submission to Writing & MeAre you a writer? Tell us about yourself and your writing here. What does writing mean to you? How do you approach it? How have you achieved your goals? Share your stories with your fellow writers. Visit our Tell Your Own Story page for details of how to submit your story to Writing & Me.
Writing & Me by Howard Edmunds
Here we go about me: if asked to do this prior to 12 December 2018 I would have found this task impossible but now 1,000 words seem too little. For...
The Shadow Beyond by Daniel Reiner
Anyone familiar with American college basketball will know the name of Dick Vitale, aka, Dickie V. In the 1970’s, he did a respectable job as the head coach of the...
My Writing Life by Tracy Ryden
A couple of years ago, one Sunday afternoon, I was visiting my parents’ house with my husband and our two children. It was an afternoon that would change my life...
When Things Were Great! The Writing of the Novel by Eamonn Francis Kelly
When Things Were Great! arose from a short story I had written called Notton Doon which was based on a character or “voice” that I used to do for fun....
The Loss of Letter Writing By Olivia Rana
To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart. ~Phyllis Theroux When I was in primary school one of my friends moved to...
Anu’s Story by Shabnam Vasisht
When my mother, Anu, emigrated from India to Ireland at the age of 74, people marvelled at how quickly she settled into her new life. I often thought that if...
The Groundsmen by Lynn Buckle
Writers are notorious thieves. We steal people, places and ideas all of the time, squirrelling away small pieces of everyday experience for use in later novels. This may explain the...
My Nana’s Voice by Alicia McMahon
I was delighted I was asked to do this piece for Writing & Me as I don’t think there is a lot of guidance out there to support up and...
Shipwrecked by Michael Clemenger
Matt Smith stares down at the rejection slip that he has received for a play he recently submitted to the National Theatre – the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. He starts...
The Clippings of a Plot: The Road of a Thousand Tigers by Robert Craven
This started as a ‘Project’ while waiting for edits of my next Eva instalment (Eagles Hunt Wolves). I had an idea from reading Ian Fleming’s From Russia with Love where...
