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After finishing the Darkness into Light run last weekend I was so hopped up on endorphins I felt sure I could do anything. So, I signed up for the Vhi Women's Mini Marathon in Dublin. It's 10km, which I had never done before. My husband wisely suggested...

Today I started writing an essay and there were so many things I wanted to say that I just lost track of any coherent message. So I tried something a little different. I wrote individual sentences to sum up the issues I was trying to address.
It’s better if I just conform to societal expectation so things won’t be difficult for me....

I am not one to write tributes for public figures but when I found tears welling up in my eyes as I read of Sir Terry Pratchett's death I realised I wanted to write a little something - not for you, dear reader, but for me.
It was my sister who first read Terry Pratchett, and she'd collected every book. As a young teen I simply could not get into Discworld, or any of his other books. Then, one summer I pulled Equal Rites off the books shelf. I was hooked. Suddenly I was...

I just went over a short story I wrote about 15 years ago. The first paragraph is essentially two long sentences (41 words). I think I removed about 10 commas as I read it. This trend continued throughout the rest of the story.
I remember being quite proud of this short story; it was an exercise in description. As a young teen writer I’d been focusing quite heavily on dialogue in my novels (bad dialogue, I should add). This 500 word story was one of about 10 that I wrote focusing...