by Orna Ross | Nov 9, 2013 | FICTION |
Willie, Maud and Iseult, three of the most imaginative people who ever lived, never imagined the Internet or Twitter. If they were alive today, I imagine Maud would leap on Twitter for PR purposes, Iseult would shun it, and Willie would dismiss it for a time, with a...
by Orna Ross | Nov 4, 2013 | FICTION |
I wrote last time about first hearing of the strange love triangle between WB Yeats, Maud Gonne and her daughter, Iseult. Iseult is less well known than her mother though her life story is equally dramatic, in a different sort of way. Born on August 6, 1894, she was...
by Orna Ross | Nov 3, 2013 | FICTION |
Now that the Go Creative! Books are at the editing and formatting phase, I'm back writing fiction again – specifically the books based on the extraordinary triangle at the heart of the love life of the Irish poet WB Yeats. When I was 13 or 14 I was introduced, as all...
by Orna Ross | Oct 24, 2013 | Uncategorized |
Creative presence is the simple act of yielding to, rather than opposing, blocking or running away from, the flow of life. It is inherently linked with the present, the moment we call “Now”. To be present, to summon creative presence, is to drop deeply...
by Orna Ross | Oct 17, 2013 | Go Creative! Podcast |
It's no coincidence that in my novels both Jo and Norah in After The Rising and Mercy in Blue Mercy write their way to resolution. This was my way of paying tribute to the power of writing to heal, transform and liberate. It’s such a miracle, that through marks on a...