Orna Ross
Lovers’ Hollow Virtual Book Tour
Font is excited to announce its latest Virtual Book Tour (VBT) for our very own Orna Ross’s debut novel, “Lovers’ Hollow”. A VBT consists of bringing an author to various blogs over a period of a few weeks to discuss their latest offering to the literary world. Orna is scheduled to visit hosts from the […]
St Patrick’s Day in Glendalough
by Orna Ross
St Patrick’s Day. My kids (aged 20 & 18) were headed downtown for the parade and the céilí, a day and night of what the Irish call craic agus ceol (drinking & dancing). My beloved was away in Plum Village, a zen centre in the south of France. So I took myself off […]
Feel the fear and write on anyway
By Orna Ross
”It is human to feel fear, it is inhuman to live from fear.” This comment which I wrote the other night in a group discussion (http://www.blogcatalog.com/group/dialogue-raises-consciousness/discuss/entry/can-we-live-without-fear) has been picked up for further discussion around the blogosphere.
It’s made me think harder about it. I was writing in a general sense but I also feel that this […]
Why F-R-E-E-Write? by Orna Ross
“Don’t go to workshops. The workshop is the death of writing. No one should attend a writing workshop ever.”
Whoa! Who is this? Some old duffer of the writing-can’t-be-taught school, who would never expect, say, a violinist or a painter to emerge, talent fully honed, without training or peer feedback? No, it’s bright-young-thing Scarlett Thomas, being […]
Planning Your Writing
By Orna Ross.
We’re writers. Our work is spurred by inspiration. We don’t like to plan. Plans are mundane and boring, okay for business types, but not for creative free spirits.
Through my work with Font, I meet a lot of writers with this attitude but I’m not convinced. It sounds to me like one more form […]
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