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Episode 55 – Orna Ross – poet, novelist & non-fiction writer

“Formally practising with free writing gives you all sort of training as a writer but also as a human being.”

Episode 55 – Orna Ross – Show Notes

• Wanting to write fiction when writing non-fiction and vice versa
• Write for the first couple of hours each day
• Writing full time led to procrastination
• Coffee. Never tea.
• Themes of conversations around difference.
• Self-awareness – free writing – writing fast, raw, exact & easy with no end-game
• Meditate for 15 minutes, then free writing for 15 minutes, review once a week
• Closed Facebook group
• Creatives need to stay open to change
• There are no short cuts to becoming a good writer
• Ezra Pound, Yeats, George Eliot – Middlemarch, modern poetry movement – rap, performance, slams, in the pub & in the street, Instagram poetry
• Keepers – inspirational poetry collection. Self-published as a low-risk experiment but began to question assumptions
• Non-fiction project – Go Creative nine book series for creative business people
• Trying a different approach to launch – once target for pre-orders is reached, the book is launched
  
• Agility in independent publishing

“Writing as a stolen pleasure.”

“Coffee is the fluid of the devil.”

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