Bridget Walsh
On titles: Exile - 1847, Home - 1848.
Just reading an excellent article about Antony Gormley. ‘I’m inviting people to explore the conditions of their own living.’ (Guardian...
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Bridget Walsh
- Apr 20, 2022
- 1 min
Developing characters: Jane Keating
Jane, will live a long life. Born in Galway in 1830, she will be almost eighty-six years old on the 24th April 1916, and she will witness...
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Bridget Walsh
- Apr 17, 2022
- 1 min
Easter Sunday, 17th April 2022
I took this pic a couple of days ago. The movement of the water seems to enhance the shape of the swan's wings. Light reflects through...
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Bridget Walsh
- Apr 17, 2022
- 2 min
As an Indie author, it’s now time I started to broaden the reach of my novels.
#HistoricalFiction So, yesterday, I signed up with #Ingramspark. The self-publishing arm is similar to KDP, but Ingramspark are also...
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Bridget Walsh
- Apr 13, 2022
- 2 min
Where do you get your characters' names from? (three minute read)
My daughter, Nancy, asked me why I had chosen the name, Jane, for one of the two protagonists in my first self-published novel,...
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Bridget Walsh
- Apr 13, 2022
- 2 min
While writing: Do you get in a knot with your chronology?
13th April 2022. Two minute read. .My problem with writing the final chapters, and scenes, was to get both women, one dead and one alive,...
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Bridget Walsh
- Apr 9, 2022
- 3 min
Self-publishing my first novel. Part Two. (4 min read)
How many times did you re-upload your manuscript? I uploaded mine at least three times. Here's why, and here's the screen-shot of my...
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Bridget Walsh
- Apr 1, 2022
- 2 min
Emigration - My character’s imagined journey from Quebec to New York in 1846.
The Journey My protagonist, Annie Power, and her siblings, left Ireland in June 1846. In 'Daughters of the Famine Road,' they had planned...
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Bridget Walsh
- Mar 29, 2022
- 1 min
Self-publishing my first novel. (Two minute read)
It’s a strange experience to finally publish my first novel, Daughters of the Famine Road. I’m so pleased I can do this on Amazon KDP. I...
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Bridget Walsh
- Mar 28, 2022
- 2 min
Mixing created characters and a real woman from history. (2 min read)
Asenath Nicholson was an America philanthropist who toured Ireland twice in the 1840s. The first book she wrote, "Ireland Welcomes the...
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Bridget Walsh
- Mar 25, 2022
- 1 min
Character and plot: Agnes Mary Clerke
Imagine a small girl, six years old, living in Skibbereen, County Cork, in 1848, during the Famine Years. Her name was Agnes Mary Clerke,...
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Bridget Walsh
- Mar 23, 2022
- 2 min
Self-pubbing
So, my novel, ‘Daughters of the Famine Road,’ is now finished and on Amazon Books. Next up is marketing. I’ve been thinking about trying...
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Bridget Walsh
- Mar 21, 2022
- 2 min
Q. The World of your novel. Is it invented, or based in a real place? (Two minute read.)
A. I began to write my historical novel, ‘Daughters of the Famine Road,’ I started with locations in Ireland that I was most familiar...
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Bridget Walsh
- Mar 19, 2022
- 2 min
Self-pub editing (three minute read)
I’m just at the point of completing the final edit of my novel, “Daughters of the Famine Road.” I’ll upload it, today or tomorrow, on...
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Bridget Walsh
- Feb 13, 2022
- 2 min
Metaphors
"In which a word or a phrase is applied to an object or action that it does not literally apply to in order to imply a resemblance."...
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Bridget Walsh
- Feb 13, 2022
- 1 min
Writing for your reader: empathy and transportation
I recently completed a Masters in Creative Writing but in this short course, @OUFreeLearning, - 'What happens to you when you read?' I...
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Bridget Walsh
- Feb 3, 2022
- 1 min
Ernie O'Malley
wrote 'On Another Man's Wounds' while in exile in South America between 1929 and 1932. O'Malley, a middle class medical student, joined...
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Bridget Walsh
- Jan 27, 2022
- 1 min
My first novel
I signed up for my first ever cover design with Reedsy. com. Here's hoping my investment will result in a beautiful cover for my novel...
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Bridget Walsh
- Dec 14, 2021
- 1 min
December 2021
Winter is definitely here in Leicester. Enjoy!
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Bridget Walsh
- Apr 26, 2021
- 1 min
Wounds by Fergal Keane.
Just finished reading Wounds by Fergal Keane. In it Keane tells the story of his grandmother, Hannah Purtill. A Kerrywoman, she was born...
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