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Creative Writing Blog thread

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  • #62
    ThePinkCage
    Registered Users Posts: 78 ✭✭ThePinkCage


    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.


  • #63
    hcass
    Registered Users Posts: 628 ✭✭✭hcass


    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/


  • #64
    PetraMac
    Registered Users Posts: 111 ✭✭PetraMac


    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.


  • #65
    PetraMac
    Registered Users Posts: 111 ✭✭PetraMac


    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!


  • #66
    breakfasttime
    Registered Users Posts: 234 ✭✭breakfasttime


    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/


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  • #67
    The Libertine
    Registered Users Posts: 10 ✭The Libertine


    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/


  • #68
    Vetinarugbian
    Registered Users Posts: 30 ✭Vetinarugbian


    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 ;)


  • #69
    hcass
    Registered Users Posts: 628 ✭✭✭hcass


    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.


  • #70
    The Libertine
    Registered Users Posts: 10 ✭The Libertine


    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.


  • #71
    lahalane
    Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭lahalane


    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/


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  • #72
    crockstock
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭crockstock


    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/


  • #73
    Gryphonboy
    Registered Users Posts: 91 ✭✭Gryphonboy


    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 :-)


  • #74
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,856 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    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?


  • #75
    ThePinkCage
    Registered Users Posts: 78 ✭✭ThePinkCage


    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.


  • #76
    QikBax
    Registered Users Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭QikBax


    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


  • #77
    ThePinkCage
    Registered Users Posts: 78 ✭✭ThePinkCage


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


  • #78
    hcass
    Registered Users Posts: 628 ✭✭✭hcass


    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 :D


  • #79
    The Libertine
    Registered Users Posts: 10 ✭The Libertine


    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 :D

    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.


  • #80
    hcass
    Registered Users Posts: 628 ✭✭✭hcass


    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!


  • #81
    The Libertine
    Registered Users Posts: 10 ✭The Libertine


    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!!!


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  • #82
    girl_friday
    Subscribers Posts: 5,766 ✭✭✭girl_friday


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

    Would love to hear any feedback!


  • #83
    BEAT
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 5,945 ✭✭✭BEAT


    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/


  • #84
    Agent Weebley
    Registered Users Posts: 450 ✭✭Agent Weebley


    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


  • #85
    BEAT
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 5,945 ✭✭✭BEAT


    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 ;)


  • #86
    hcass
    Registered Users Posts: 628 ✭✭✭hcass


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

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


  • #87
    The Libertine
    Registered Users Posts: 10 ✭The Libertine


    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!


  • #88
    hcass
    Registered Users Posts: 628 ✭✭✭hcass


    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.


  • #89
    Ilyana 2.0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Ilyana 2.0


    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 :))


  • #90
    The_B_Man
    Registered Users Posts: 7,859 ✭✭✭The_B_Man


    This is entitled "Good Weather in Ireland.


    Good Weather in Ireland


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  • #91
    breakfasttime
    Registered Users Posts: 234 ✭✭breakfasttime


    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/


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