by Orna Ross | Feb 5, 2021 | Fiction |
The story opens in 1916. The world is at war, Irish freedom fighters have just staged an armed rebellion in Dublin, and the three characters we first met in Her Secret Rose are deeply unsettled. The world famous poet, WB Yeats, Yeats, “having come to 50...
by Orna Ross | Jan 29, 2021 | Fiction |
The story opens in 1916. The world is at war, Irish freedom fighters have just staged an armed rebellion in Dublin, and the three characters we first met in Her Secret Rose are deeply unsettled. The world famous poet, WB Yeats, Yeats, “having come to 50...
by Orna Ross | Jan 22, 2021 | Fiction |
The story opens in 1916. The world is at war, Irish freedom fighters have just staged an armed rebellion in Dublin, and the three characters we first met in Her Secret Rose are deeply unsettled. The world famous poet, WB Yeats, Yeats, “having come to 50...
by Orna Ross | Sep 25, 2020 | Fiction |
Okay, that's it. I've done it. No more drafts. It’s done. It’s simple. It’s to the point. It works. Just press Send. From: jodevereux@aol.com To: roryodonovan1995@eircom.net Dear Rory, I read about your wife’s passing in RIP.ie. She seems to have been a wonderful...
by Orna Ross | Sep 23, 2020 | Fiction |
Do you love fiction? Would you like to help shape my next novel, In the Hour? I now post short fiction posts on Facebook most days–snippets of scenes or dialogue or setting from my next novel, IN THE HOUR, together with some behind-the-book posts. I then flesh...
by Orna Ross | Sep 18, 2020 | Fiction |
I recently learned the most marvelous story planning technique from fiction writer and teacher Linda Cracknell—using haiku to outline/plan your story. She uses it for the short story but I’ve now adopted it for chapter plans—one haiku per chapter to release its heart...