On Quillblog: Day Jobs for Writers

Sometimes you need to take stock, and January is the time for doing it. Income tax prep can wait – it’s time to open the vault. I have been thinking of rejigging a long story, a 4 part screen play called ‘A Rebel Hand.’ Like the saying goes, The past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past. (Faulkner??)

It’s a common saying about Ireland is that there is too much history and not enough geography there. As though this were a problem for people who want to read and to write stories..? But as keen as I am on Irish history and historical figures, I usually stay away from writing about it. The exception is a long, four-part screenplay I wrote on Michael Dwyer.