Creative Writing Blog thread

shuffles03 · 20-11-2012 11:50am

Yeah I see what you mean about the paragraphs. I put loads in but the theme I chose has a funny way of displaying them. When I try to create a paragraph, it only barely indents making it quite unnoticeable but I think I might be able to add a ..... in between each paragraph which would break it up more visibly.

shuffles03 · 20-11-2012 11:51am

Nope snook isn't a word, woops. I'll edit that, cheers.

pickarooney · 20-11-2012 12:28pm

'Snuck' is a word, in American English at least.

DaneScott · 27-12-2012 5:26am

8 new wazzers on the blemmer
http://acreativewritingblog.blogspot.ie/

I'm delirious, please excuse.

Insect Overlord · 02-01-2013 1:54am

Some of you may remember my old blog, which was something of an open diary. I've decided to hide that one and reintroduce myself with a new blog for 2013. It will probably end up reading quite like the old one, but with names and other identifying information being kept out.

The goal is to update it every day in a similar fashion to my 6 months of poetry blogging in spring/summer 2012. The first article is up now. I'll probably be updating the blog around this time every night, so it could be a good one for the nocturnal readers among you.

"Most Of The Days - a new blog for 2013"

IO.

DaneScott · 05-01-2013 5:48am

http://acreativewritingblog.blogspot.com/

8 new ones, plenny more bein' werked on. Couple new things tried, let me know what you think.

DaneScott · 07-01-2013 9:15pm

Another 4 there.
i'd love some opinions, good or bad really, just to see if i've grown at all.

The_B_Man · 07-01-2013 9:33pm

Updated with some musings, and a poem:
http://jcstorylibrary.blogspot.ie/

ScriptedAlibi · 12-01-2013 1:01pm

I've spent the morning going through your blogs and I wanted to say thank you for posting, I really enjoyed reading them and especially the open diary...I do something like that myself but I keep that one strictly anon; I think it's amazing you are so open with yours.

I've always loved writing and it's helped me through some really tough times. This is my blog, [REDACTED] it might not be something you all can relate to and to be honest there's a whole pile of crap scattered through it...but I think there are some decent lines here and there. It's really just somewhere for me to go to get outside of my own head, even for a little while. I'm a little anxious about posting it as I've kept it anonymous given the content, but I figure no-one knows me here really so there's no harm. Although please don't quote the link as I may change my mind later and delete this if I get too worried about it.

FudgeBrace · 12-03-2013 11:51am

Just started a blog a few day ago. Not sure how it loIka or if it's any good but i thought I'd put it here anyhoo. Thanks if anyone reads it by the way haha.
http://johnnybonbonblog.blogspot.com/

ThePinkCage · 12-03-2013 6:45pm

This is great. I've been looking for Irish bloggers/writers to follow.

My own blog, World of Writing, gives advice on creative writing and can be found at:

www.writerlyderv.wordpress.com

My friend Orla Shanaghy gets fierce creative on her blog and you can find her writings on www.waittilitellyou.com.

And if you like to combine music and writing, try Rant with Occasional Music by Derek Flynn.

www.derekflynn.wordpress.com.

Hope these are of use. Keep blogging.

hcass · 17-03-2013 11:51am

Hey everyone - despite starting this thread I have been absent for some time.

Do you ever just feel like you have no ideas? Or that the ideas you have are bloody awful and sure why would anyone want to read them? I have felt like that for a long time. I am a very harsh critic - of myself as well as others - so if I think my writing is less than perfect I don't want anyone reading it.

Trying to let go of feeling like this and just wrote something I wasn't 100% about and stuck it up on the blog. I am already feeling better. Writing is just great like that - it makes me feel alive.

Anyway been reading a few of the blogs there - old and new - some great stuff and I just love reading Irish writing.

That "wait til I tell you" has some good reviews - all the information you want about a cafe/restaurant and well presented.

Johnnybonbonlog - the link you gave says the blog doesn't exist? Was it removed and why?

the B Man - interesting thoughts on sins - made me laugh.

I updated my blog anyway if anyone is interested - Leave a comment if you have the time... http://nuttygalwantstocomehome.blogspot.ie/

PetraMac · 19-03-2013 12:38am

This is Orla Shanaghy of wwww.waittilitellyou.com. Just discovered this thread thanks to Derbhile above - thanks for the plug mate!
I had a look at Nutterly Butterly and find it very funny. I love that style of confessional self-effacing writing.
I wanted to subscribe,but I don't want to join Google Friend Connect, and I'm in the process of changing my reader as Google Reader is being shut down. Is there another way?
I love Nuala ni Chonchuir's blog - http://womenrulewriter.blogspot.ie/. Great for all things to do with writing in Ireland.
I've followed this thread, look forward to more blog-related chatting.

PetraMac · 19-03-2013 12:44am

hcass - I tried to comment on your blog there, but keep getting rejected by the captcha thingy. I remember this has happened to me before on blogger.com blogs. My eyesight is good so I'm not sure what the issue is!
Anyway, my comment was along the lines of: Very funny, I love the way you turn to religion in desperation. Keep blogging!

breakfasttime · 21-03-2013 5:33pm

Hi mine is a music blog. I'm hoping to improve my writing and I love discussing music so I thought they would go hand in hand. Anyways would love if you guys would have and gander. Thanks!
http://discussmusico.blogspot.ie/

The Libertine · 08-04-2013 1:11am

Hi,
Here's some stuff I try to verbalise when often I cant. Things that, in hindsight all seem a little dark! but there's light in here if just in some very late night written poems when I cant sleep.
Please enjoy, I have some more to add. Kinda my biggest fear is people reading this stuff so this is a big step!

http://busypuffin.blogspot.hu/

Vetinarugbian · 11-04-2013 6:17pm

The Libertine wrote: »

Hi,
Here's some stuff I try to verbalise when often I cant. Things that, in hindsight all seem a little dark! but there's light in here if just in some very late night written poems when I cant sleep.
Please enjoy, I have some more to add. Kinda my biggest fear is people reading this stuff so this is a big step!

http://busypuffin.blogspot.hu/

Wow Libertine, thanks for letting us read that - I hope your "little bird" is still looking out for you. Thats a refreshingly honest look into the mind of a bad breakup am I right? I hope things are looking up - I rarely write on Boards but I felt obliged to answer to this - it struck a very familiar chord!! Good luck to you

hcass · 12-04-2013 1:49pm

The Libertine wrote: »

Hi,
Here's some stuff I try to verbalise when often I cant. Things that, in hindsight all seem a little dark! but there's light in here if just in some very late night written poems when I cant sleep.
Please enjoy, I have some more to add. Kinda my biggest fear is people reading this stuff so this is a big step!

http://busypuffin.blogspot.hu/

Love this - well done.

The Libertine · 12-04-2013 6:23pm

Thanks for that,

Yes Vetinarugbian - it was a bit of a tough time!!! Things are much better now, did take a couple of years and a few mates to kick me back into shape! And thanks hcass for taking a look, like I said its mostly pretty personal and Id die if anybody I knew read it but I guess that's the beauty about the anonymity of places like these boards and blogs.

Ill keep updating it if and when some more stuff farts its way out of my head onto a page. And would love you to take a look again in the future.

lahalane · 10-05-2013 1:49pm

Some very interesting and amusing blogs here. Keep it up everybody.

My own blog was started in February of this year. I try to update it every 3 or four days. It's a random blog about whatever is in my head on any given day. It's largely sarcastic in places, I'll let you decide where.

http://lahalane.blogspot.ie/

crockstock · 10-05-2013 4:19pm

Hi, thought I'd post a link to my blog. Started it over a year ago and got 3 posts up but then got really busy at work and forgot about it for a while. Just added a 4th post yesterday... kind of just a reflection on current affairs I suppose. The latest posts about alcohol.
http://damienaldershott.wordpress.com/

Gryphonboy · 13-05-2013 5:04pm

crockstock wrote: »

Hi, thought I'd post a link to my blog. Started it over a year ago and got 3 posts up but then got really busy at work and forgot about it for a while. Just added a 4th post yesterday... kind of just a reflection on current affairs I suppose. The latest posts about alcohol.
http://damienaldershott.wordpress.com/

Finally, a fellow wordpresser I can follow :-)

Insect Overlord · 13-05-2013 6:17pm

My fellow writers! I come seeking recommendations.

A friend of mine is an avid reader. He doesn't do much writing (apart from his academic endeavours) and his only on-line interactions involve sharing funny material on Twitter.

He wants to find blogs that are as funny as they are well-written. He's read everything in The Walsho's archives and would ideally like to find writers of a similar style. Young, male, irreverent, humorous, insightful, not necessarily Irish.

Any ideas?

ThePinkCage · 14-05-2013 9:37am

Does he like films? If so, he might enjoy www.filmfixx.wordpress.com, winner of the Blog of the Year category at the Student Media Awards 2013.

QikBax · 14-05-2013 7:59pm

Not really a blog but a general mish mash of stuff mainly to get into the habit of writing. It's a nice way of writing things you'd never put across in public for fear of being committed:

http://www.dancingforpowerfulmen.com

ThePinkCage · 15-05-2013 8:54am

Blogging is a good, low pressure way to keep up the habit of writing, while you're waiting for that big idea to strike.

hcass · 15-05-2013 2:57pm

ThePinkCage wrote: »

Blogging is a good, low pressure way to keep up the habit of writing, while you're waiting for that big idea to strike.

So true, if it wasn't for my blog I would worry I'd never write. It really keeps you going when you've no BIG ideas. Still waiting for the bIG ideas all the same

The Libertine · 18-05-2013 2:24pm

hcass wrote: »

So true, if it wasn't for my blog I would worry I'd never write. It really keeps you going when you've no BIG ideas. Still waiting for the bIG ideas all the same

The BIG idea will come some day! Be patient and write about what you know and how you feel , its where I believe the inspiration will come from!

I wrote a new poem about Atheism that i would love you to check out http://busypuffin.blogspot.hu/
Thanks again for giving shy people the courage to put out stuff like this without fear of being dismantled and also encouraging us to show it to people.

hcass · 19-05-2013 11:20am

The Libertine wrote: »

The BIG idea will come some day! Be patient and write about what you know and how you feel , its where I believe the inspiration will come from!

I wrote a new poem about Atheism that i would love you to check out http://busypuffin.blogspot.hu/
Thanks again or giving shy people to put out stuff like this without fear of being dismantled and also encouraging us to show it to people.

Love the poem - funny and also hard hitting. You don't take any prisoners. Much like religious orders

Is that thanks for me? I don't deserve it but it's really nice thing to say and it made me feel good today, so thanks right back at ya!

The Libertine · 25-05-2013 10:36pm

hcass wrote: »

Love the poem - funny and also hard hitting. You don't take any prisoners. Much like religious orders

Is that thanks for me? I don't deserve it but it's really nice thing to say and it made me feel good today, so thanks right back at ya!

Of course Hcass!!! I would love to have the courage to show these to people or even better - read them out loud, cause I feel like it always works better if the person that wrote them reads them out loud - it always flows better in their words.
But to get encouragement is great. No matter how serious or whimsical they are. I'm assuming none of us are professionals and we just write about whats in our hearts and in our heads at a given time. Nobody deserves criticism for their stuff and if it makes us happier to scribble some rubbish down that very few people will ever read - what harm! At the very least I find it interesting how easy it is to see in my stuff what kind of mood I was in when I wrote it - its so obvious things were ****ty for me a while ago and now much better as my stuff is so less self involved now!
But thanks anyway, its appreciated. And Im only figuring out that it was you who left the comment on my blog! thanks - your the first......and only!!!

girl_friday · 14-07-2013 4:29pm

Just found this thread. I have a beauty blog at http://girlfridaysbeautyblog.wordpress.com/

Would love to hear any feedback!

BEAT · 15-07-2013 1:14am

I do not post in the forum much anymore, mostly because I have so much going on. I did recently start blogging again though, I used to have a blog way back when Boards gave everyone a blog but not much since. I try to update it once a week now...just about me and life stuff and Witchy stuff

http://mywitchyways.wordpress.com/

Agent Weebley · 15-07-2013 10:34am

BEAT wrote: »

I do not post in the forum much anymore, mostly because I have so much going on. I did recently start blogging again though, I used to have a blog way back when Boards gave everyone a blog but not much since. I try to update it once a week now...just about me and life stuff and Witchy stuff
http://mywitchyways.wordpress.com/

Hi BEAT,

That was a great Witchy read. I added my 2 cents worth to it, but since it has been moderated, here it is again:

That was a great read. Well done.

But didn't the Druids let Atrick, a.k.a.Patrick, the Roman, light that fire on the hill opposite Tara, in order to let the people have free choice between concurrent past/present/future heaven on Earth with the dead that live among us to guide us, and the fictional notion of giving up ones mental freedom for some sort of abstract passage into heaven after death? The stories about the miracles of Jesus were far more fantastic and got the ear of the common person - the ordinariness of Druidic chanelling paled in comparison.

The devil would be merely a part of that notional construct; the Hegelian Dialectic with an angel on one shoulder and the devil on the other, with Atrick as a human guide to avoiding the latter. At that point, the meme was created - free choice in Ireland was replaced by living life by proxy. Fake strings to hold us down and control us.

Druids are then propagandised as sorcerers who practiced human sacrifice by Pliny The Elder and Caesar himself to dust their tracks - to warp the truth of the ordinariness of the Druids' simple guidance of those that are living by chanelling those that are also living among us.

I hope you write more, as people need to know they have free choice to cut their strings and drive the fictitious snakes from Ireland again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q8G5AQpuxM

PS: Steve: you a lucky man

BEAT · 16-07-2013 11:50pm

Agent Weebley wrote: »

Hi BEAT,

That was a great Witchy read. I added my 2 cents worth to it, but since it has been moderated, here it is again:

That was a great read. Well done.

But didn't the Druids let Atrick, a.k.a.Patrick, the Roman, light that fire on the hill opposite Tara, in order to let the people have free choice between concurrent past/present/future heaven on Earth with the dead that live among us to guide us, and the fictional notion of giving up ones mental freedom for some sort of abstract passage into heaven after death? The stories about the miracles of Jesus were far more fantastic and got the ear of the common person - the ordinariness of Druidic chanelling paled in comparison.

The devil would be merely a part of that notional construct; the Hegelian Dialectic with an angel on one shoulder and the devil on the other, with Atrick as a human guide to avoiding the latter. At that point, the meme was created - free choice in Ireland was replaced by living life by proxy. Fake strings to hold us down and control us.

Druids are then propagandised as sorcerers who practiced human sacrifice by Pliny The Elder and Caesar himself to dust their tracks - to warp the truth of the ordinariness of the Druids' simple guidance of those that are living by chanelling those that are also living among us.

I hope you write more, as people need to know they have free choice to cut their strings and drive the fictitious snakes from Ireland again.

PS: Steve: you a lucky man

I hadn't moderated it, I just hadn't approved it yet...its up there now thanks for the comment

hcass · 03-08-2013 11:12am

I finally got round to updating my blog. http://nuttygalwantstocomehome.blogspot.ie/

Gonna have a read of your witchy ways now, BEAT.

The Libertine · 13-09-2013 1:15am

hcass wrote: »

I finally got round to updating my blog. http://nuttygalwantstocomehome.blogspot.ie/

Gonna have a read of your witchy ways now, BEAT.

Jesus,you're not wrong, some of the dumb stuff we did as kids I'm amazed how not totally totally screwed we generally ended up! I remember going to the Oasis gig in Cork with The Prodigy and the Bootleg Beatles the year before -96 maybe, I was 16ish, I dunno how my folks allowed it but despite being unconscious drunk and being a million miles away from home made it home safe and sound. Pretty sure it was creep-free unlike your "adventure" however!
I prefer Blur these days!!!!

Would love if you took a peak at some new stuff I scribbled down, its all pretty rushed but Id rather save them here then forget about them in some file somewhere. http://busypuffin.blogspot.hu/

And dear Beat, well said, said with lovely elegance and dignity - why cant we all just get along????? https://mywitchyways.wordpress.com/2013/07/01/what-and-who-is-a-witch/

I could never claim to scribble stuff with half the elegance and subtlety as you guys but sometimes I go off on a tangent, sometimes an angry one, sometimes a happy one, sometimes sad and sometimes just something silly and for a bit of a laugh but anyway sure isn't it what this is here for - all different voices in the choir!

hcass · 17-09-2013 1:56pm

I love the Fungi poem - really funny. Was waiting to see how it'd all end. Very good.

Left some comments for you anyway.

I haven't been on my blog at all recently - I have a few things that are taking up all my time. Still enjoying reading everyone else's stuff though.

Ilyana 2.0 · 18-09-2013 11:47am

Hi, this is my first post in this forum although I've been browsing for a while. I saw this thread so I thought I'd share my blog as well. It's only been going since July ( I think) but I'm steadily gaining followers and I'm really enjoying it so far.

I'm currently harbouring ambitions of writing some fiction but it'll depend on how hectic college gets in the next couple of months...

http://ilyanaroseblog.wordpress.com/

(It's in my sig too

)

The_B_Man · 18-09-2013 2:34pm

This is entitled "Good Weather in Ireland.

Good Weather in Ireland

breakfasttime · 14-01-2014 3:08pm

Hi everyone, I've just started a 500 word a day writing challenge. You simply write 500 words everyday for a month. Although I've only started it really helps in forming a habit of writing consistently. I'd recommend it to anyone to give it a go.

My blog for the challenge

http://writing500everyday.blogspot.ie/

The Libertine · 22-01-2014 1:30pm

Hi, I have added some more poems to my blog. Some of the language is a bit fruity but I hope there's some stuff in there to maybe give you a chuckle or make you think. Some of them are just whimsical but there's a few serious ones. I'd love you to take a look. http://busypuffin.blogspot.hu/ Thanks.

EdwardCole · 26-01-2014 2:07pm

Hi Everyone, I hope that you consider tumblr sites to be valid blogs. I am starting up http://always-hers.tumblr.com/ again with renewed vigour and would love some feedback and encouragement

The Libertine · 20-03-2015 12:26pm

This thread has died a bit it seems, its very hard to stay enthusiastic and read others stuff when secretly all we want is for people to read our stuff!

So how about instead of all promoting our own blogs and writing, we might throw out here what it is that makes us want to write? Is it something we see? A mood we are in on a particular day? Do we write better at times of great stress and unhappiness or do we write better when our heads are in a good place?

Personally I took up writing, i use the term "writing" loosely. Its all just rubbish really but I took it up at a time in my life when I could barely stand to be left alone in my head for 3 seconds, I was in a bad state and found it distracting and very cathartic. The stuff I wrote started off very dark. Now things are fine in my life again the need to write has died down but also the mood of all the poems has perked up, Ive tried writing kids poems, I had an idea to get old fairy tails and make them modern and a bit more "real". Like the ugly duckling, he unfortunately stays ugly but has a wicked personality that shines through and he gets a great job on the radio. Crap like that.

It would be great to hear what other people find inspiring and maybe a bit of background about there stuff before so we can have an idea where they are coming from when we read it.

Ed_Stephens · 21-03-2015 6:27pm

I keep a loosely updated blog mainly to put up some photos to go along with my Thailand travel guide and some commentary on common issues to South East Asia travellers.

http://uptoyouthaibook.blogspot.ie/

Dave! · 21-03-2015 8:14pm

Oh, timely bump! I keep a blog, though I write about all sorts, not so much creative writing. But, I wrote a blog post last night about poetry

Confessions of a Poetic Impostor

Creative Writing Blog thread

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