Short story collection 'Calls To Distant Places' BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio Ulster Fish 2nd place, Bridport Shortlist, etc 50+ stories published No DMs
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Today, I got my doctorate. I started it back in 2009. Took a year out in 2010 because I was diagnosed with dyslexia. Was then diagnosed with ADHD & autism - took a further 5 years out. And now, all of 15 years later, I finally got it. Hardest thing I’ve ever done. Never give up!
50 great #shortstories chosen by Hilary Mantel
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I had a writer - that I don't know - send me his novel. He asked me to look at it. I did, free and gratis. I read it the way a literary agent would. It wasn't ready. His reply was to defend every edit: every overuse of adjective and adverb, every spelling mistake. Never again!
I was writing almost daily for 25 years, a career writer, got Covid in January 22. My GP sent me to hospital. I stopped writing for 2 years. But I’ve started again. Baby steps. Thank you God 🙏
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One of the most common ways voters spoiled their ballots was by writing Alexey Navalny’s name on them in an act of protest against his murder and a fitting tribute to his memory
Do something kind today. Follow this lady.
Спасибо огромное вам, прекрасные, лучшие люди, которые простояли со мной сегодня с 12 дня целых 6 часов бок о бок в очереди на избирательный участок. Спасибо, что подходили - плакали, смеялись. Спасибо, что бесконечно кричали «Юля, мы с тобой» и «Навальный» и говорили мне, что я вернула вам надежду. На самом деле всё, конечно, наоборот, это не я вам, а вы мне даете надежду, что все не напрасно, что мы ещё поборемся. Спасибо всем вам, кто выходил в каждом городе по всему миру. Вы и есть моя поддержка и опора. Люблю вас всех очень.
The US Republican party is playing politics with the lives of the men, women, and children of Ukraine. Shame on them.
I found a little robin. His feet were caught up in fishing line and weed. He's fine now! What a pleasure.
Best advice I ever got -
You'll never make it on another writer's coattails. It's all about YOUR writing.
A bloke applies for a job at the circus.
What can you do? asks the owner.
I can do really good bird impressions.
We’ve got someone does that already.
Ah well, says the bloke, and he gets up and flies out of the tent.
"Do not ask Ukraine when the war will end. Ask yourself, why is Putin still able to continue it?"
— Volodymyr Zelensky
Flash fiction relies on suggestion — layered meaning that is off the page.
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