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| Name: | Cora Harrison | |
| Message: | I've put Kristine's story at the top of the stories - I think quite a few people will enjoy reading it. | |
| Dated: | Thu Aug 20 09:54:02 2009 | |
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| Name: | Cora Harrison | |
| Message: | Bridget: So you are the 'writer' Bridget. I remember you. Were you home-schooled? You might be interested have a look at Kristine's story. Would you welcome any constructive advice, Kristine? Speaking for myself, praise is great, but advice is more useful - evn if you don't take it! | |
| Dated: | Thu Aug 20 09:45:02 2009 | |
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| Name: | Kristine Niland | |
| Message: | Cora: Oh, there’s no rush! If you’re too busy, don’t worry about it, thank you for offering anyway! Best of luck with your new story! | |
| Dated: | Wed Aug 19 21:09:48 2009 | |
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| Name: | Bridget | |
| Message: | I’m the one from America. | |
| Dated: | Wed Aug 19 19:46:18 2009 | |
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| Name: | Cora Harrison | |
| Message: | Aoibheann: It's terrible! I can't say I have enjoyed too much, though at the moment, I am writing a story called 'The Montgomery Murder' and I really need to work on it, so I suppose it's just as well that I am not tempted to go out and sunbathe! | |
| Dated: | Wed Aug 19 14:10:49 2009 | |
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| Name: | Aoibheann | |
| Message: | Cora: not much of a summer is it? how is Oscar? | |
| Dated: | Wed Aug 19 13:49:02 2009 | |
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| Name: | Cora Harrison | |
| Message: | Ciara: My two favourite Drumshee books are 'Treachery at Midnight' and 'A Life for a Life'. These are from the Drumshee Chronicles. My favourite Drumshee timeline books are 'Viking at Drumshee' and 'Drumshee Rivals' | |
| Dated: | Wed Aug 19 13:46:07 2009 | |
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| Name: | Ciara Kate | |
| Message: | Dear Cora 19.08.09 I think you are very pretty! I have had a great summer,have you?!? I am about to go in to 6th class. It will be pretty boring because I was in a mixed class with 6th so all the work we did last year I am doing again next year. BBBOOORRRIIINNNGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When I said "What are your two favourite childrens books?" I meant the Drumshee books that you wrote? So would you answer my question please?!? Kind Regards: Ciara Cahill | |
| Dated: | Wed Aug 19 13:13:18 2009 | |
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| Name: | Cora Harrison | |
| Message: | Kristine: If I get a minute, I'll read it through from start to finish - so far it's all been in chapters and I'd like to get an overall impression. It may not be for a while. I'm in the middle of a Victorian murder mystery for ten-year-olds and I'm frantically busy. Bridget: I remember a time when there were two Bridgets coming on the website - one from Ireland and one from US. Are you one of these? | |
| Dated: | Wed Aug 19 09:31:24 2009 | |
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| Name: | Bridget | |
| Message: | Okay. My computer must have been having problems too, because I haven't been able to get on for about three years. It's nice to be able to, though! | |
| Dated: | Tue Aug 18 21:48:36 2009 | |
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| Name: | Kristine Niland | |
| Message: | Cora: I probably will revise it. There's loads of things that I can do with it. I might go through it this evening and make some notes to see what I can do. I read "Jane Eyre" last summer, and I loved it, too. I thought the ending was beautiful. | |
| Dated: | Tue Aug 18 15:22:20 2009 | |
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| Name: | Ciara Kate/Cora Harrison | |
| Message: | Dear Cora!! 17.08.09 My two favourite books so far are The Voyage from Drumshee and The Viking at Drumshee. What were your two favourite childrens books?!? (I moved your message from the adult guestbook as that is really only for my Burren mysteries books - your answer is below. CH) | |
| Dated: | Tue Aug 18 08:51:13 2009 | |
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| Name: | Cora Harrison | |
| Message: | Kistine: I think this story is very, very worth revising - 36,000 words is a bit short so you have loads of scope. My YA book 'I Was Jane Austen's Best Friend' has ended up at 80,000 though it started off as less than half of that. I lLOVED 'Gone with the Wind' when I was about your age and read it loads of times since then. I'm not a huge fan of Emily Bronte, but she's definitely got something - it's what would be called Gothic horror nowadays, I suppose. I prefer Charlotte Bronte - I loved 'Jane Eyre'. Bridget: There were a few bugs in this message board etc. system. Pete discovered and remedied them this summer. I couldn't get on my self for a week! | |
| Dated: | Tue Aug 18 08:47:14 2009 | |
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| Name: | Bridget | |
| Message: | This website hasn't been working on my computer for a while, so I'm just checking. | |
| Dated: | Tue Aug 18 05:53:49 2009 | |
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| Name: | Kristine Niland | |
| Message: | Cora: I like revising stories, but it takes a lot of time. Between school and everything, it can take me about a year to start and finish a story. I think (and this is a rough estimate) that it's about 36,385 words long. I've never read Wuthering Heights. There's a copy of it in my house though, and I'm not reading anything else, so I might as well give it a go. I recently read the book of "Gone With the Wind" - I love the film, and I thought the book was just amazing. | |
| Dated: | Mon Aug 17 21:34:19 2009 | |
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| Name: | Cora Harrison | |
| Message: | Tara: I suppose I visit it at odd times - I don't set aside a time. Ciara Kate: I think my favourite children's books are 'Wolf in the Midnight Forest' & 'Treachery at Midnight'. | |
| Dated: | Mon Aug 17 19:39:56 2009 | |
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| Name: | Tara | |
| Message: | cora, do you come on to your site at certain times, or do you just come on at any time? | |
| Dated: | Mon Aug 17 17:45:52 2009 | |
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| Name: | Cora Harrison | |
| Message: | Kristine: I love most things about being a writer but I really hate revising - though some writers that I know say that they love it! Like it, love it or hate it, it has to be done and it usually improves the book. Above all, though, you must not lose the claustrophobic atmosphere - that's one of the things that makes this book great. (how many words is it, by the way?) I was in Hughes & Hughes the other day and was amused to see 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte with a cover almost identical to Stephanie Meyer's books. Apparently it is Edward and Bella's favourite book and now this hundred and fifty year-old classic is being marketed for the young. Have you read it by the way? I think you would like it | |
| Dated: | Mon Aug 17 09:17:38 2009 | |
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| Name: | Aoibheann | |
| Message: | Cora: Im working on the 5th...going through different scenes, and re-writing other parts. will try and finish it soon Any news about twice as gorgeous | |
| Dated: | Sun Aug 16 22:26:52 2009 | |
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| Name: | Kristine Niland | |
| Message: | Cora: That's one of the things that I'd like to change. I got sort of caught up in the dramatic side of it, and neglected to add any kind of normalcy. | |
| Dated: | Sun Aug 16 20:23:05 2009 | |
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| Name: | Cora Harrison | |
| Message: | the thing is that there is also loads and loads of really exciting, excellently-written stuff. But I think I would be happier if it were a bit more rooted in the place. There was nothing about Galway in it - nothing about school or any sort of normal teenage life - but then perhaps that claustrophic atmosphere is what makes it so different. I just don't know. I'd leave it for a week and then go back and read it through. | |
| Dated: | Sun Aug 16 20:08:30 2009 | |
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| Name: | Kristine Niland | |
| Message: | Cora: I know what you mean. There's a lot of things about this story that I feel really uneasy about, myself, I'm just not sure how I would change them or even what half of them are! | |
| Dated: | Sun Aug 16 19:59:22 2009 | |
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| Name: | Kristine Niland | |
| Message: | Cora: I've just sent in the final chapter! I might add a short epilogue, but the story is finished. | |
| Dated: | Sun Aug 16 17:54:34 2009 | |
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| Name: | tara | |
| Message: | building a bonfire sounds fun, but can it be a bit dangerous?did any of your clothes burn? | |
| Dated: | Sun Aug 16 17:38:54 2009 | |
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| Name: | Cora Harrison | |
| Message: | Tara: That sounds fun. When my children were young - ages ago - we had a camper van and had holidays in Mayo. We camped by beach called Streedagh and as all our clothes were wet, on the first fine day we built a huge bonfire of drftwood in order to dry them. | |
| Dated: | Sun Aug 16 15:21:31 2009 | |
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