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#55 – Orna Ross – Write Through The Roof
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Episode 55 – Orna Ross – poet, novelist & non-fiction writer“Formally practising with free writing gives you all sort of training as a writer but also as a human being.”
Episode 55 – Orna Ross – Show Notes- Wanting to write fiction when writing non-fiction and vice versa
- Write for the first couple of hours each day
- Writing full time led to procrastination
- Coffee. Never tea.
- Themes of conversations around difference.
- Self-awareness – free writing – writing fast, raw, exact & easy with no end-game
- Meditate for 15 minutes, then free writing for 15 minutes, review once a week
- Closed Facebook group
- Creatives need to stay open to change
- There are no short cuts to becoming a good writer
- Ezra Pound, Yeats, George Eliot – Middlemarch, modern poetry movement – rap, performance, slams, in the pub & in the street, Instagram poetry
- Keepers – inspirational poetry collection. Self-published as a low-risk experiment but began to question assumptions
- Non-fiction project – Go Creative nine book series for creative business people
- Trying a different approach to launch – once target for pre-orders is reached, the book is launched
- Agility in independent publishing
“Writing as a stolen pleasure.”
“Coffee is the fluid of the devil.”
Links
- Orna Ross
- Alliance of Independent Authors
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