Books create the opportunity for people to share with others a mutual love or, hatred of an author, an idea or a movement. These are five books that are guaranteed to get you caught in a conversation with friends, family and people on the bus, if you read them in public.
Writing is a challenge that it will test your patience, your knowledge and your self belief. So when you want to start writing it’s best to approach the challenge from a place of strength, by removing distractions that can get in the way.
Writers can be a funny lot. They like feedback and they love the fact people are reading their work but they can be sensitive about the way it is perceived. It makes sense, a writer puts a great deal of their life into their work so a little bit of sensitivity should be expected.
It’s pretty rare to get something right the first time, which is great! If we got things right all the time, then there would be no point in practicing, no reason to grow, everything would be easy. Probably too easy to make life a challenge worth accepting.
Learn how to beguile your fellow party-goers with quips, quotes and keeping it in your pants (not safe for kiddies).
Tighearnan John Kelly 