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Food Service and Bartending Jobs: Lessons for the Writing Life

Being a restaurant server teaches us about human behavior and the writing life

2 min readJan 19, 2019

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Working the Room or Working the Zoom: Which Writing Workshop Is Best for You? — Áine Greaney

In late spring 2020, as we all adjusted to the COVID-19 lockdown, I moved most of my creative and wellness-writing workshops online.

4 min readApr 4, 2022

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Working the Room or Working the Zoom: Which Writing Workshop Is Best for You? — Áine Greaney

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Writing Truth in Personal Essays, Creative Nonfiction and Memoir — Áine Greaney

In the bestselling memoir, “ The Glass Castle,” Jeannette Walls writes about how her mother urges her author daughter to “just tell the…

5 min readApr 11, 2021

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Writing Truth in Personal Essays, Creative Nonfiction and Memoir — Áine Greaney

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On National Write Your Story Day: Writing True Stories about Folks and Family

In her bestselling memoir, “ The Glass Castle,” Jeannette Walls writes about how her mother urged her author daughter to “just tell the…

3 min readMar 10, 2024

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On National Write Your Story Day: Writing True Stories about Folks and Family

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Fair Pay: 6 Tips for Writers (and writing teachers)

Last spring, as I filled my dining room table with receipts and mileages and 2022 credit card bills--all to prepare and IRS file my 2022…

3 min readJul 15, 2023

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Fair Pay: 6 Tips for Writers (and writing teachers)

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How to find the Perfect Gift for the Writer in Your Life

Last year, the best gift under my tree was a packet of black, ball-point pens. I mean “best,” as in, this was the gift that got me really…

3 min readDec 7, 2021

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How to find the Perfect Gift for the Writer in Your Life

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On Halloween: How To Get Past Your Writing Fears — Áine Greaney

Vampires? Witches? Ghouls? Politicians? Yes, they’re Halloween scary (maybe), but on our worst writing days, they’ve got nothing on our…

3 min readOct 30, 2021

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On Halloween: How To Get Past Your Writing Fears — Áine Greaney

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4 Questions to Ask Before You Sign Up to Lead a Writing Workshop or Retreat — Áine Greaney

I’m passionate (some would say ‘cranky’) about our right to tell our own story, to document our lived experiences as they have happened to…

4 min readAug 25, 2021

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4 Questions to Ask Before You Sign Up to Lead a Writing Workshop or Retreat — Áine Greaney

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Tips for Writing in a Café or Coffee Shop — Áine Greaney

You know that old saying, “You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone?”

4 min readJul 21, 2021

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Tips for Writing in a Café or Coffee Shop — Áine Greaney

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OK, Zoomer: How to get the most out of an online or virtual writing workshop — Áine Greaney

Growing up, we had no household telephone. Instead, in our rural Irish village, we had one of those street-side payphones. You know the…

5 min readDec 1, 2020

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OK, Zoomer: How to get the most out of an online or virtual writing workshop — Áine Greaney

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Aine Greaney

Aine Greaney

Irish author, workshop leader in Boston area. Author of "Writer with a Day Job" (Penguin/Random House) and 3 other books. More at www.ainegreaney.com

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