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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. Two months later, by mid summer, I had learned this: It’s not enough to be a talking head blathering away on that screen. Instead, there are two must-haves…

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Working the Room or Working the Zoom: Which Writing Workshop Is Best for You?  — Áine Greaney
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 truth.” However, in many families and for many of us nonfiction authors, it’s rarely that simple. Recently, I remembered Ms. …

Writing Memoir

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

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Dec 7, 2021

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 excited, that I couldn’t wait to open up and use. My ballpoint pens had that rubber padding or sleeve around them, so…

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How to find the Perfect Gift for the Writer in Your Life
How to find the Perfect Gift for the Writer in Your Life
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Oct 30, 2021

How To Face Down Your Spookiest 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 spookiest writer moments. Right? Here are the three aspects of the writing life that can send us screeching and cowering under our bed covers. I’m also including some suggested fixes. …

How To Write

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On Halloween: How To Get Past Your Writing Fears  — Áine Greaney
On Halloween: How To Get Past Your Writing Fears  — Áine Greaney
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Aug 25, 2021

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 us and have been processed through our individual consciousness. As a writing workshop facilitator, it’s an honor and privilege to create the space in which new…

Writing Tips

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

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Jul 21, 2021

How to Write 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?” During our 2020 COVID pandemic lockdown, the thing I missed most from my “normal” life was … no, not dining in restaurants, not outdoor barbecues, not shopping centers (yuck), not bars and certainly not gyms (yuck…

Writing Tips

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

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Dec 1, 2020

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 ones: They were cream with a green trim. Inside, you had to turn a black handle to dial the operator. …

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OK, Zoomer: How to get the most out of an online or virtual writing workshop — Áine Greaney
OK, Zoomer: How to get the most out of an online or virtual writing workshop — Áine Greaney
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Jun 10, 2020

A Rooster in Dublin: Thoughts on 2020 America

As a writer and as a white woman and as a naturalized U.S. citizen, I cannot yet write about systemic racism and our police murdering my fellow citizens and residents and documented or undocumented immigrants. I cannot write about a COVID-19 pandemic that, in some U.S. …

Police Brutality

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A Rooster in Dublin: Thoughts on 2020 America
A Rooster in Dublin: Thoughts on 2020 America
Police Brutality

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Jan 5, 2020

January 6: Feminist Thoughts from America on Nollaig na mBan

January 6, 2021 In my native Ireland, January 6th is Nollaig na mBan or Women’s Little Christmas, when our mothers were supposed to kick back and relax while our fathers did the housework. Em .. Right. Elsewhere, depending on your country, tradition or religious belief, January 6 is either just…

Womens Rights

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January 6: Let’s Make The Women’s Christmas the Women’s Year
January 6: Let’s Make The Women’s Christmas the Women’s Year
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Dec 8, 2019

Low-Cost Gift Ideas for the Writers in Your Life

(Psst: Most can be bought at your local dollar store) Got a writer on your gift list this year? Just trot on over to your local discount place. Here are some items for your shopping list: 1. Small, pocket-sized notebooks . We need them for those middle-of-the-night or stuck-on-a-train ideas. 2. Boxes of thank-you cards. I love to…

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Aine Greaney

Aine Greaney

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Irish author, workshop leader in Boston area. Fifth book, “Green and Other Essays” just released. More at www.ainegreaney.com

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