In this session of Writer to Writer, international award-winning Irish author Nuala O’Connor discusses SEABORNE, her latest novel, the craft and practice of writing, and neurodivergence with Jennifer McMahon, our co-EIC.
When you have to wade through tides of exaggeration and misinformation, it's so much harder to figure out what actually happened and to write something truer to history. I admire you, Nuala, for tackling such a difficult subject.
Great discussion - how much of history we can know and how what is known informs what we write; neurodivergence; how we become a person; endings and finding out what we're writing about. And thank you for the phrase word-hoarding. As a fellow neurodivergent writer, I'm right with you on first person present tense, Nuala - and finding yourself anew with each book.
When you have to wade through tides of exaggeration and misinformation, it's so much harder to figure out what actually happened and to write something truer to history. I admire you, Nuala, for tackling such a difficult subject.
Thank you, Malina, I'll pass your comment on to Nuala.
Great discussion - how much of history we can know and how what is known informs what we write; neurodivergence; how we become a person; endings and finding out what we're writing about. And thank you for the phrase word-hoarding. As a fellow neurodivergent writer, I'm right with you on first person present tense, Nuala - and finding yourself anew with each book.