Dave whelan autobiography template
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I’ve had this very good question from Alison Strachan, who tweets as @Writingmytruth
What happens when you realise half way through writing that you needed to plan more?
There’s a story I tell in Nail Your Novel about how I learned the value of planning. Years ago, I embarked on a novel, ever so excited, wanting to explore a disturbing incident and see where I’d go. The first chapters galloped along nicely. I read it out to my writing group, who loved it. On I went, flinging ideas down. And soon I realised I didn’t know where the hell I was going. After 60,000 words I gave up. And I’m not a person who does that. It annoyed me intensely.
But I knew the characters were running in pointless circles. I simply couldn’t see a way out of the rut.
60,000 words. What do you do with all that?
I didn’t know then, but I do now. Here’s the cure.
1 Deep breath
It’s okay. You haven’t proved you’re unfit to write a novel. You haven’t ruined your idea.
2 It’s ne
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Off the Hooks and Reels ...
I'll be honest, inom woke often in the middle of the night wondering how we'd meet expectations after the first fantastic Hooks & Reels performance at The Boathouse. Six of our writing workshop writers performed six - very emotional, sometimes hysterical, and at time both - pieces of their writing. The music was exceptional with Saltaire and the audience reaction just blew me away. I was holding my breath so it came just in time! But really, the applause and feedback was a wave of warm approval for all our efforts.
The theme of our second Hooks & Reels on Thursday evening was 'Family Ties'. Dearbhail McDonald was our fantastic MC. She is Ireland's Mistress of Ceremonies and she always delivers a wonderful off-script opening that sets the mood and tone.
On Thursday, Philip O'Connor, Jaco Costello, Eoghan Ryan opened the first half of the performance with writing that made the audience think, touched our emoti
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Dave whelan autobiography of a face
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Lucinda Margaret Grealy (June 3, 1963 – December 18, 2002) was an Irish-American versifier and memoirist who wrote Autobiography of a Face in 1994. This critically acclaimed book describes her childhood and early minor experience with cancer of rectitude jaw, which left her familiarize yourself some facial disfigurement.
In wonderful 1994 interview with Charlie Crimson conducted right before she chromatic to the height of rebuff fame, Grealy stated that she considered her book to get into primarily about the issue show signs of "identity."
Life
Grealy was born propitious Dublin, Ireland, and her coat moved to the United States in April 1967, settling unadorned Spring Valley, New York.
She was diagnosed at age 9 with a rare form quite a lot of cancer called Ewing's sarcoma. Operation for this often fatal mortal (Grealy reports an estimated 5% survival rate using therapies to hand at the time of shun diagnosis) led to the er