A Writer's Life
Recognising our writing journey
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I’m Cecilia, a Novel Navigator.
I help you do your novel, trust your journey, overcome self-doubt to 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.
My newsletters have inspiration for your writer journey.
I was making slides for one of my workshops called ‘Novel Dreamers Do’ and made a slide called ‘Recognise your writing journey’ and it’s about
The first draft is freedom. Let me rephrase that – writing a first draft of a novel can feel freeing. After all, you are free
What if life is a series of thresholds we have to cross? Like, one thing happens, and then another thing happens. Or we make one