... Inaugural FIFA Peace Prize Winner Donny Turd bombs the shit out of Venezuela for failing to make it to the World Cup!

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Maghera Beach, Donegal

Where the mountains of Mourne sweep down to the sea.

Donegal

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Donaghadee, Northern Ireland

Belfast, Northern Ireland

Antrim Sunset!

… "Keep it accurate, keep it clear." — Ezra Pound #Writing

... Millions long for immortality but don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. ― Susan Ertz

... 𝗡𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗬'𝗦 𝗖𝗔𝗩𝗘. 𝗪𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗙𝗢𝗢𝗧,𝗖𝗢 𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗠 This is where Anne Murray lived. She came to Waterfoot when she was 50 and lived here until 1847, when she died, aged 100.

... 'At the first sign of a trick or a gimmick in a piece of fiction, a cheap trick or even an elaborate trick, I tend to look for cover. Tricks are ultimately boring, and I get bored easily...' — Raymond Carver #Writing #ShortStory #FlashFiction #Tricks

Passage East, Waterford, Ireland

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... "What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness." — George Saunders #Writing

… “I’m having a hard time writing about Sunday. Getting the long hollow feeling of Sundays. No mail and faraway lawn mowers, the hopelessness.” ― Lucia Berlin A Manual for Cleaning Women

… “A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. – Eudora Welty #Writing

Benone Strand, Limavady, N. Ireland

... Avoid the ecstatic adjectives that occupy such disproportionate space in every critic's quiver—words like "enthralling" and "luminous." — William Zinsser 'On Writing Well' #Writing

... Anton Chekhov's 6 rules of short story writing 1 Brevity 2 Compassion 3 Truthful description 4 No cliche 5 Objectivity 6 Stay off the soapbox #writing

... read what you’ve written aloud — you’ll learn the rhythms... —nat Hentoff #writing

. Leave a decent space of time between writing something and editing it. —Zadie Smith #Writing

. “The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components.” ― William Zinsser #Writing

… 1 Make the paragraph the unit of composition. 2 Use definite, specific, concrete language. 3 Omit needless words. 4 Place the emphatic words of a sentence at the end. — Strunk and White #Writing

Portavogie, County Down

The Mournes, County Down

Ballycastle, late evening, Causeway Coast And Glens.

Cows on the beach at Ballycastle, Northern Ireland. And, why not?

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Happy birthday, Robert A. Heinlein, born 7 July 1907 5 Rules For Writers 1 You must write. 2 You must finish what you write. 3 You must refrain from rewriting, except to editorial order. 4 You must put the work on the market. 5 You must keep the work on the market until it is sold. #Readers #Books

Let go of the day, rest and start again tomorrow.

Ballintoy

Writing improves in direct ratio to the number of things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there. — William Zinsser #Writing

“Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better. — V. S. Pritchett #Writing

Sometimes a flat-footed sentence is what serves, so you don't get all writerly: 'He opened the door.' There, it's open. — Amy Hempel #Writing

V.S. Pritchett's definition of a short story is something glimpsed from the corner of the eye, in passing. ― Raymond Carver #shortstory

Anton Chekhov's 6 rules of short story #writing 1 Brevity 2 Compassion 3 Truthful description 4 No cliche 5 Objectivity 6 Stay off the soapbox

keep it accurate, keep it clear. — Ezra Pound #Writing

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“Whatever in a work of art is not used, is doing harm.” ― C.S. Lewis #Writing #ShortStory

“When the meaning is unclear there is no meaning.” ― Marty Rubin #Writing

All these weirdos, and me getting a little better every day right in the midst of them. I had never known, never even imagined for a heartbeat, that there might be a place for people like us. — Denis Johnson #Writing

“A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains.” – Eudora Welty #Writing