Welcome to the Year of the Salmon

In Celtic mythology, the salmon is associated with wisdom. It was believed that by eating salmon, you could gain wisdom and even the ability to see the future. Now, I’m all for omega-3s and enough smarts to keep my head firmly attached to my neck but I like a little mystery around my future. If …

NaNoWriMo Wrap-up

Another November, and another NaNoWriMo, is done and dusted. This was my fifth attempt and the first one I've actually "won" and even that claim is debatable by the purists. Since my first NaNo, attitudes have changed — there's a lot less negativity towards those who personalise the challenge, or engage in it in a …

Top 3 Favourite TV & Movie Tropes

There are some things in films and tv shows which, no matter how problematic the show may be, I love because they're just, tbqh, ridiculous.  Here's a list of my top three. 1. Horses in places they shouldn't be.  I love, love, love this trope. If we had fewer love triangles and more horses in …

Slán 2015, Fáilte 2016*

Can you do New Year's posts about the year on New Year's day? I have it on good authority that it is still 2015 in some parts of the world although it's over 14 hours into 2016 here. 2015 was - I don't know how to describe it. It was my shortest year ever, literally. …

The End is Nigh

So today I had my last undergraduate lecture ever and most likely my last Ancient History and last Linguistics lecture ever. So sad. I've decided that if I do more study, it will be in a different discipline but I am going to miss these subjects so much. The last three years have flown by …

The Second Spring

Hello again! It's certainly been a while since I last posted. Over six months. Oops. In my defense, much of the time was spent studying, travelling all over the place and studying some more.I am now at the point where I can officially say that I only have two more weeks of my undergraduate degree …

One Week In

Settling In

The latest post from my travel blog. Woo. 🙂

Resolutions

2015 is going to be a big year for me as I'm spending half of it studying on the other side of the world. Twelve months from now I will have completed my undrgraduate degree. This year is going to require more dedication, more conviction and more courage than ever before so I've decided to …

Strangely Addicted To Editing

A glimpse at a point still far down the road for me.

Lynette Noni

So, I’ve just sent my first round of revisions off to my new publishers (I love saying those last three words!). It was really fascinating to go through my manuscript and make the changes they requested because as I made the revisions, other thoughts came to mind. Things like, if my MC is in another world, why has she never questioned how they can all speak the same language? Just stuff like that. It was really cool to sort of look at it all and see gaps that needed to be filled. And as weird as it sounds, I seriously love editing. Before this incredible book deal happened, I was actually looking into doing a post-grad degree in editing and publishing. It’s still something I’d like to keep in mind for the future because, like I said, I really enjoy editing. (Don’t look at me like that – it’s true!)

Anyway, the first…

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