By Irish Writers Podcast
Behind the scenes of three writers becoming authors
This time we talk about the things that we’ve used that helped us: books, websites, courses, conferences, and everyone refuses to enable my insistence that movie watching counts as writing! I then asked when are you ready to go looking...
In this episode we discuss how sparks of ideas end up as written stories, what we look for in ideas to make them into stories, and ponder how we picked the subject or if the subject picked us. This segued...
This week we gave a writing update to see how far we had come since the pilot episode, and what were the obstacles in the way. We then flowed into the thorny subject of naming characters, places and sometimes things. The...
This week Kate stumped us with an excellent question: what role does the act of listening play in our writing. We grappled with this and finally emerged with some very different thoughts and views (and a conspiracy theory was born:...
This week we had a discussion on what makes a good story and what is it that really attracts a reader to a story. We discuss what attributes make our favourite stories our favourites, and what traits should be absolutely...
In a continuing discussion from episode 3, the conversation turned to writing classes - what benefits do they bring and why should people do them. As a confessed class-aholic Cathy loves a good writing class and attends them frequently, however,...
On a pleasant sunny Saturday in Dublin, over afternoon tea, Cathy hosts our third episode - a discussion on editing. We are all in the process of editing the third draft of our novels/screenplay and because of this Cathy thought it would be...
In this, our first ‘real’ podcast, we discuss whether genre effects your writing, what was the worst and best writing advice we ever received and when is it time to walk away. We also give a writing update. Presented and produced...
This is the inaugural episode of the Irish Writers Podcast, where three unpublished writers discuss their writing, their journey towards publication and interesting topics for writers. In this episode Kate, Cathy and Maire introduce themselves and their writing. Reference is made...