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Where I Write Part Three
As you are all writers, we at writing.ie know, deep down, you all suffer from the most insatiable and overwhelming curiosity, so in the next of our series of fly-on-the-wall articles we reveal the secrets of three more Irish writers, getting a peek inside their writing rooms. Showing that their writing spaces are as individual as their writing, Alan Early, Rahel Fehily and Sarah Maria Griffin tell us where they write...
Where I Write Part Two
Part two of ‘Where I Write’ explores more writers’ cramped and creative rooms in which they craft their work. This week we get a glimpse inside Declan Burke’s ‘Cave’, Sinead Moriarty’s inspirational walls while Nuala Ni Chonchuir embraces the pretty clutter of her writing space.
Irish Crime Writer, DECLAN BURKE, refers to his writing space as ‘The Cave’, a room well lit in spite of its nickname due to the fact that, if nothing else, Declan needs great light in order to write. This bright ‘Cave’ is lined on three walls by bookshelves bursting at the seams. Declan’s ‘Writing Room’ is overflowing with books, however as he continues to describe his ‘Cave’ it is clear that it is a room of order and inspiration. As Declan himself explains “apart from everything else, floor-to-ceiling books make for wonderful insulation, and the most interesting wallpaper you could ever have,” but the books spilling out of the abundance of shelves are each an important addition to Declan’s creativity.
The top two shelves over the desk are taken up by Irish crime novels, which have now begun to spill down onto the third shelf, and he predicts that “at the rate Irish crime writers are churning them out, I’m gonna need a bigger boat.” Another three shelves accommodate his work related books, and one shelf is home to a framed newspaper clipping paraphrasing Samuel Beckett: ‘Try again, fail again, fail better,’ and his non-work reading, a category he refers to as a “mixed bag”. The last lot of shelves, to the left of his desk, proudly hold his own work.
Where I Write
With Roald Dahl's writing shed recently in the news, we posed the question: “Where do you like to write?” We asked some of Ireland's top authors to describe how they create an atmosphere conducive to successful writing. From minimalist offices with nothing but research notes to messy family rooms over-looking the beauty of the Irish landscape every author is different. But it is this variety that fascinates...
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