A Writer's Life
Welcome to the new website!
I finally moved my website from WordPress.com to WordPress.org. The difference between .com and .org is that the site is self-hosted and I can install
Book your place on one of the Start Your Novel series of In-Person workshops.
Part of the Whole Novel Life offerings for novel writers.
In-Person Workshop – Novel Dreamers Do on Saturday 5 July 2025 in Tramore, Ireland
In-Person Workshop – Your Novel Idea on Saturday 20 September 2025 in Tramore, Ireland
In-Person Workshop – Your First Draft on Saturday 18 October 2025 in Tramore, Ireland
I’m Cecilia, a Novel Navigator.
I help you do your novel, trust your journey, overcome self-doubt and make novel writing a part of your life.
For over a decade, I’ve facilitated writers in creative and novel writing groups.
Trained with the Cert. in Creative Writing for Publication and the Two Roads program at Maynooth University (Kilkenny Campus) with Suzanne Power and John MacKenna.
Received a Regional Bursary (Literature) residency award for the Tyrone Guthrie Centre.
I write science fiction: author of ‘The Alien Eve’, have poetry and short fiction in two anthologies ‘Hammered Glass’ and ‘Word Weavers: A First Anthology’.
I know it can be both scary and exciting to want to write a novel so I invite you to take your first step, and find out how we can do this together.
P.S. My writing journey isn’t done in a bubble, here’s my Lineage.
you’re a novel dreamer and imaginer,
you have a voice that needs to be heard,
this is your wild and wise-self expressed,
you’re a creative being,
and novel writing can become a part of your life.
I have a methodology called your Whole Novel Life.
It combines novel writing craft, a feminist socio-cultural analysis, women-centred self-care needs, and the lived reality of a woman and a writer.
It helps you to write, reclaim who you are, and recognize that your whole life experience will help you write your novel.
The newsletters have inspiration for your writer journey and an occasional update on mine.
I finally moved my website from WordPress.com to WordPress.org. The difference between .com and .org is that the site is self-hosted and I can install
Or what I know now that I wish I knew then (and what I’m still learning) as a writer. 1. Believe Many new writers don’t
Building a story is more than Character or Plot. At the heart of it is the Situation that the main character is in before a