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doonothing

well, coolock library has a adults group, thats about it unfortunately.
there were some fairly expensive teen writing courses on in town over the summer, im a wee bit late for them...

ah well, ill just suffer on in solitude. (:

claire h

doonothing wrote:

ah well, ill just suffer on in solitude. (:

Take action! Start your own group! Do not live up to your username!

*waves pom-poms and stuff in support*

DonegalMan

I haven't had any great interest in poetry since my schools days but now I feel a sudden yearning to get back into it.

I'm looking for recommendations for good anthology of poems; to give a flavour of the sort of thing I am looking for, here are some of the poems I recall with great affection from schooldays that I still remember some lines from and would especailly like to read again.

• Autumn - John Keats
• Nightmail - Auden
• How They Brought The Good News from Ghent to Aix - Browning
• Sea Fever - Masefield
• Daffodils - Wordsworth
• Lake Isle of Innisfree - Shaw

A somewhat eclectic taste I think

Any recommendations on a good anthology that would include at last some of these?

luckat

Oxford Book of English Verse, maybe.

luckat

doonothing wrote:

i cant find any creative writing youth groups in dublin.

Next month is Nanowrimo month (www.nanowrimo.org), when lunatics all over the world register on the nanowrimo site and write a 50,000-word novel in a month.

Usually a bunch of Irish writers join, and get together occasionally during it. You might find some people who'd like to start a group through that - it's also good fun.

The other thing you could do is advertise in school, see if anyone there is interested. Or you might try asking the people who run ... is it scoil.net it's called? The schools site that has all the exam questions. They might put up a query for you and host an online private youth writing group.

Phat Chance

Your stance on gore? I've got a sortof western-zombie movie type story (though I didn't set out to write that, it just flowed out of the pen). There is one curse (to the latest installment, today's) and a good bit of gore in later installments, but the writing is in the third person which sortof dries it out a bit. Acceptable- yea or nay?

BEAT

As previously stated, just put a warning in the header and it should be fine.

bspoke

Hi guys and gals. I need some help.

I am the feature writer for Manic-Motorz.com ,a modified car website, and have recently had a couple of features printed in Modified Motors, the leading modified magazine in Ireland.

My problem is that I need some honest critics to have a look at some of my stuff and tell me where I am going wrong or if not wrong then just not quite right. I have asked this on Manic-Motorz but everybody seems to be too polite ti tell me im doing anything wrong.

If I post a few of my previous works up here can i get some constructive criticism??

Night_Rocker

If a file i wanna post is too big how do i make it smaller?

Blush_01

DonegalMan wrote:

I haven't had any great interest in poetry since my schools days but now I feel a sudden yearning to get back into it.

I'm looking for recommendations for good anthology of poems; to give a flavour of the sort of thing I am looking for, here are some of the poems I recall with great affection from schooldays that I still remember some lines from and would especailly like to read again.

• Autumn - John Keats
• Nightmail - Auden
• How They Brought The Good News from Ghent to Aix - Browning
• Sea Fever - Masefield
• Daffodils - Wordsworth
• Lake Isle of Innisfree - Shaw

A somewhat eclectic taste I think

Any recommendations on a good anthology that would include at last some of these?

Norton Anthology of Poetry. (I think the most recent edition is number 7.) It'll have an eclectic mix from old and middle english up to modern / postmodern poetry sampling the romantics et al along the way.

JakeTheMsitake

Apologies if I sound a bit naive but I odn't know a lot about this stuff. After writing a book and wanting to send it to publishers, what should I do?
Is there some way of preparing it with double-spaced lines or something? Should I send in a full book? Any other tips?

cinnamon

What do writing classes entail ?
I would really like to join one but I don't really fancy the idea of reading my stuff to other people. It's not a shyness thing, I just feel my work is quite personal and it would feel weird saying it out loud.
Also I would really like to get published some day but I rarely tell people I write. I suppose I think people might take the p!ss out of me or something. I don't know - does anybody feel this way?

claire h

JakeTheMsitake wrote:

Apologies if I sound a bit naive but I odn't know a lot about this stuff. After writing a book and wanting to send it to publishers, what should I do?
Is there some way of preparing it with double-spaced lines or something? Should I send in a full book? Any other tips?

Double-spaced, one side of the page only, don't send the whole manuscript, just a synopsis and the first couple of chapters, either get yourself an agent or check that the publisher accepts unagented submissions/queries. And good luck!

Alex de Large

Does anyone known of a good creative writing group in Cork city? Or maybe be interested in forming one?

MagnumForce

BEAT wrote:

Poetry should say something about man's situation or the nature of the world.

Poetry can be about anything the poet wants and by its very nature shouldn't be limited by a definition of what it should contain. somebody could write a perfectly good peice of poetry about 5 seconds in the life of a peanut and, depending on how well it was written of course, it would be just as acceptable as a peice about the futility of war etc

BEAT wrote:

Poetry should avoid wordiness.

Poetry can include anything it likes to get its point across, unless of course, as a few poems I have read it just turns into a prose peice broken up into equal sections. but if a poet feels he needs to be "wordy" in his poem then he/she is perfectly entitled to be.

Alex de Large

Does anyone know of a good creative writing group in Cork city or be willing to help set one up? My email is no6@gofree.indigo.ie.

polycarp

I run a monthly PDF magazine for absurdist writers and I'm looking for nonfiction article submissions. Can I post a call for papers in the main area here? Is there a more appropriate place to do so?

Thanks

Chez Mistou

Is there any update on the creative writing group being set up in Cork?

Thursday*

About the modern/general poetry anthology thing - Lifelines, Lifelines, Lifelines. Specifically, Lifelines 1, 2 and 3.

Also Being Alive and Staying Alive.

And writer's groupness - a teenage writing group somewhere in the city centre would be cool cool cool. claire h, I believe you would know some, ahem, _students_ whose teacher you were, ahem, _assisting_ recently, who might be interested? Bwa ha ha ha, I know things. (Hoping to God I'm right about the Claire H involved now, or the people in the white coats will be coming for me any minute.)

claire h

Thursday* wrote:

And writer's groupness - a teenage writing group somewhere in the city centre would be cool cool cool. claire h, I believe you would know some, ahem, _students_ whose teacher you were, ahem, _assisting_ recently, who might be interested? Bwa ha ha ha, I know things. (Hoping to God I'm right about the Claire H involved now, or the people in the white coats will be coming for me any minute.)

I am trying to figure out which CTYIer might have picked Thursday* as a username. Hmmm.

Thursday*

Oh, you don't know me.

I'm very good mates with Eleanor, who was in your class. And your name was on lists and things a lot, I suppose. But due to the former fact, you've been quoted at me a fair bit.

claire h

Ah, I see. Tell Eleanor hi from me next time you see her.

Hemingway

hey can someone remind me of the details for that short story competition being organised next month by rte its just that there was a page for it here before but now i cant seem to find it?

Odaise Gaelach

Oh, the Francis Mac Manus Short Story Competition?

http://www.rte.ie/arts/2006/0802/macmanusf.html

Hemingway

Yeah I had just thought of going on the rte site anyway to check it out afterwards.But thanks for responding anyway.

luckat

If you could get a bunch of teens to do Nanowrimo (www.nanowrimo.org) in November, you might get a core group who'd keep going as a writers' group, either with physical meetings or online. Or both, of course.

djeddy

hey, would it be possible to start an on line drama here, with different writers adding to story as story develops ? eddy

BEAT

We have tried that a few times but it tends to fizzle out after the second week
feel free to give it another try if you'd like

djeddy

yea i will give it a try, thanks

Kelter

Hi All, I hope someone can help me out. Sorry if this is not the correct board. I would like to have a go at having something published. It would really only be of irish interest. Does anyone know where I can find a list of publishers?