Patricia O’Reilly on Writing for Success:

Patricia O’Reilly on Writing for Success: 

• First of all – you write
• Story that wants to be told
• Telling it (1000 words a day or 2 hours – learning process)
• Living and breathing with your story.
• Finding and making friends with your writing voice 
• Research (Colm Toibin – blue door; Edna O’Brien – shopfronts Listowel) 
• Being open to structure – less energy in chronological 
• Present or past tense or mixture 
• Era
• Maps (Carlo Gebler)
• Point of Entry (Chekov?)
• Building on Detail – bunch of flowers better as red roses 
• Learn from the winners 
• Remember each time we sit down to write, we bring the sum total of our life experiences
• Editing/re-Writing
• Professional Presentation

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