Writing Retreat in the Mountains!!!

Intensive Crime Writing Workshop with Louise Phillips @Carousel Creates

Saturday 20th April 2013

10.am – 5 pm – Coffee and Lunch included

 

                                      

Essential Elements of Crime Writing

Plot, character, tension and pace

Crime Scene Evaluation
Fingerprints/Fibres/DNA

Research, Research, Research!
The 'Why' and the 'How'

Getting to grips with Dialogue
Pitfalls, top tips, purpose, rhythm and shape

Social Media is here to stay
Quick introduction on getting it working for you

Pitch Perfect
Creating the perfect pitch letter
Contracts

Individual Editorial Critique
Based on 1,000 word submission

Total cost including tea/coffee & lunch €55
Book HERE  

One Week to go......(kinda!)



Dublin Mountains by day

It's a beautiful morning here in Dublin, and I can hear the familiar sound of early birdsong. Our dog, a golden retriever is already lying upside down in the sun, scary really how human he believes he is! Not a chance of him getting a suntan with low temperatures and a thick woolly coat, but sure he's Irish, so he's forever optimistic:)

The rest of the house is asleep, and after a very busy week, my mind too is settling down. Yes, there are tons of things for me to do, lots to get organised, from creating book marks, to writing pieces, but you know, sometimes we all just gotta stop and breathe a little - think quietly about what it's all about.

On the 3rd September, RED RIBBONS will be in the shops - hard to comprehend really, as I'm still getting over seeing it on my bookshelf at home. Lots of people have confirmed they will be at the launch on the 5th, which will be in Hughes & Hughes St Stephen's Green SC (6.30). If you do intend going to the launch, you can pick up a copy there, and yours truly will sign every one of them - after all I'm supposed to be a writer!

I am nervous about speaking, (I always am), and no, I haven't written down what I am going to say, but I will. And, I remind myself, that I will be surrounded by friends, some of which I may never have actually met, but who are giving me the greatest compliment of all, by being willing to read the words I've put down on the page.

If you pick up a copy of RED RIBBONS, and you do find it has some good qualities, well spread the word. Even in today's world of major media advertising, social media, more streams of communication than any of us would have thought possible twenty years ago - by far the best way to encourage others to read books, is word of mouth. 

Yesterday, Declan Burke did a piece in the Herald about RED RIBBONS, and there is a link to it in a blog post below, along with an image of the Dublin mountains at night where some of the novel is set.

I hope you like the picture from this morning, which is all bright, sunny and beautiful.

Have a lovely week folks.

Thanks and take care.

xx

Louise



Her dark materials...

 

Louise Phillips got inside the minds of crime experts for her debut novel about murder in the Dublin mountains, she tells Declan Burke.....

 

The Dublin Mountains at night

 

 

 

READ Article from The Herald HERE

Walking Photo Journal - Featherbed Forest



Featherbed Forest



Tree felling in Featherbed Forest yesterday.  I wish I had words to describe the smell of the wood.

Walking/Photo Journal - Early Morning Frost Piperstown

Early morning frost Piperstown.  Who can control the impulse to write at times?

Frost Piperstown

Early morning frost underfoot,

you can smell the land,

ground twists of turf and moss-coated rock,

pulsating from this jagged place.

Like a seasoned seductress,

leisurely undressing by the light of day,

and always the bird song,

falling like drops of rain.

Walking/Photo Journal - Night & Day Dublin Mountains

Apart from the beauty of the landscape through the seasons, the shades that are created over the Dublin Mountains never cease to amaze me, from powder pinks to indigo blues!

 Pic from later yesterday on the Bohernabreena Road.