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Writing for Screen…

Posted in Favorite Writers, MOVIES, Screenwriting, Scripts, Workshops, Writers, Writing on January 23, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Excellent lesson from one of the best…

http://www.savethecat.com/podcasts/save-the-cat-podcast-blake-snyder-explains-his-story-beats-part-one

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Take note…

Posted in Ireland, Poetry, Short Stories, Writers, Writing, tagged @FrancesMForde, CorkInternationalFestival, CorkPoets, FrancesMacaulayForde, FrancesMacForde, GO'DPoetryComp, IrishPoetry, IrishWriting, MLCPoets, MunsterLitCentre, PatrickCotter, poetry, ShortStories on January 15, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Wise words from MLC’s Patrick Cotter – one of the best festival organisers in the writing world:

How to Put on a Poetry Festival: Patrick Cotter on the Cork International Poetry Festival 2016

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Cork Poets…

Posted in Ireland, Poetry, Short Stories, Writers, Writing, tagged @FrancesMForde, AfricMcGlinchey, CorkPoets, FrancesMacaulayForde, FrancesMacForde, GerryMurphy, IrishPoetry, IrishWriting, MLCPoets, MunsterLitCentre, poetry, ShortStories on January 15, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Munster Literature Centre puts their journal “Southword” on-line – treat yourself to some excellent poetry and short stories…

http://www.munsterlit.ie/Southword/Issues/29/contents.html

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Swimming with Salmon…

Posted in Begorrathon, Books, Favorite Writers, Ireland, Poetry, Sketching In Ireland, Writers, Writing, tagged @FrancesMForde, FrancesMacaulayForde, FrancesMacForde, IrelandsPremierPoetryPress, IrishPoetry, JessieLendennie, poetry, PremierPoetryPress, SalmonPoetry, SalmonPress on January 11, 2016| Leave a Comment »

My friend Jessie Lendennie, the founder (31 years ago) and editor of Salmon Poetry – Ireland’s premier poetry press:

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YA books to screen in 2016

Posted in Books, Children's stories, Other blogs, Screenwriting, Scripts, Writers on January 1, 2016| Leave a Comment »

http://www.readbreatherelax.com/2016-ya-book-to-movie-adaptions/

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Boxing Day…

Posted in Christmas, COMMUNITY, Favorite Writers, Love, Poetry, Writers, tagged @FrancesMForde, AlexanderMcCallSmith, FavouriteWriters, FrancesMacaulayForde, FrancesMacForde, LovePoem, MerryChristmas, poetry on December 25, 2015| 5 Comments »

20th March 2014 ~ AMcCS entertained us at UWA, in Perth.

Alexander McCall Smith posted a note on Facebook to his fans today and I’d like to quote the last bit:

QUOTE: May I conclude with lines from a poem I wrote some time ago. I have included it in a small pamphlet I published this Christmas, “The Heart of Each of Us”. It talks about love and about Agape, that form of selfless love of others that is so strong and so important. Here are the lines:

“What we lose, we think we lose forever,
But we are wrong about this: think of love –
Love is lost, we think it gone,
But it returns, often when least expected,
Forgives us our lack of attention, our failure of faith,
Our cold indifference; forgives us all this, and more;
Returns and says, “I was always there”.
Love, agape, whispers: “Merely remember me,
Don’t think I’ve gone away forever;
I am still here. With you. My power undimmed,
See, I am here.”

Happy Christmas!

Alexander McCall Smith : UNQUOTE

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‘Coral Bay’

Posted in FrancesMacForde, FrancesMForde, nature, Poetry, Readings of my Poems, Sounds, WA Writers, Writers, Writing, tagged @FrancesMForde, FrancesMacForde, nature, Ocean, POEM:CoralBay, poetry, ReadingPoems, SoundPoems, WAPoet, WAWriter on December 12, 2015| 2 Comments »

Photo of ‘Coral Bay’ from : http://hubpages.com/art/westernaustraliaphotos#

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More than one distraction…

Posted in Animals, Art as the Spark, Favorite Writers, Jessica MCallum, Love, Other blogs, Poetry, SoopsSofties, Toys, Writers, Writing, tagged ArtIsTheSpark, ArtisticFriends, CleverPeople, ETSY:JessMcCallum, ETSY:SoopsSofties, FrancesMacaulayForde, HandmadeClowns, Inspiration, MunsterLitCentre, NewGrandie:BODHI, PatrickCotter, POEM:Dating, POEM:SplendidBlue, poetry on December 6, 2015| 7 Comments »

Sorry I’ve been a bit quiet on here lately, I’ve been making things for my gorgeous new-born grandson Bodhi ~ my clever daughter Jessica McCallum‘s latest creation.

However, today my muse smiled as I was reading updates on Facebook and 2 photos inspired me.

A friend in Cork, Patrick Cotter posted a colourful picture of his socks; “These single socks seem to think I have nothing better to do than run a dating agency for them.” and I couldn’t help myself:

Dating

A colourful

individual;

a well-heeled

single, looking

for a match,

with similar need.

And another artistic friend on Facebook, Aaron Pocock posted a photo of “2-3 watercolours from the last couple of days” of these beautiful Australian birds :

Splendid Blue

In breeding plumage

his world knows no guns,

only the garden sprays

killing his insect food.

Still, he flits and flirts,

happy in his life work.

Seeking shades of brown

and grey among the twigs.

There, a most superb mate

waits, quietly seed-feeding

to proliferate their kind.

A species not in danger – yet.

@FrancesMForde #@FrancesMacForde #NewGrandie:BODHI #PatrickCotter #MunsterLitCentre #ArtisticFriends #CleverPeople #POEM:Dating #ETSY:JessMcCallum #POEM:SplendidBlue #Poetry #Inspiration #ArtIsTheSpark #ETSY:Soop’sSofties #HandmadeClowns

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Film, Art & Poetry.

Posted in Art, Books, Film Friends, Guest Poem, Ireland, Love, Other blogs, Poetry, Romance, Sounds, Video Poems, Writers, Writing, tagged @FrancesMForde, ColinFarrell, ColoringBook, CreativeHaven, FantasyArt, FilmArtPoetry, FrancesMacaulayForde, FranesMacForde, poetry, PoetryReading, ShortFilm, TropfestCancelled, TropfestShortFilm, WilliamButlerYeats on November 13, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Last year's Tropfest in Centennial Park.

Tropfest cancelled after huge hole in funding… Perth’s Film & TV Institute in the State Cultural Centre will show local films made for this year’s cancelled event.

Creative Haven Fantasy Designs Coloring Book

If you’re into elves and fantasy: Creative Haven Fantasy Designs Coloring Book by a local artist, Aaron Pocock.

And I just loved this, Colin Farrell reading William Butler Yeats.

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Posted in Africa, Animals, Books, COMMUNITY, nature, Other blogs, Writers, Writing on November 4, 2015| 2 Comments »

Today’s interesting stuff from around my on-line world:

From his publisher: Alexander McCall Smith on the Books that Shaped My Life:

From the New Yorker: Barbara Pym and the new spinster:

From Emirates Airline: New A380: Emirates shows livery as it takes aim at the fight against poaching.

And finally, a promotion for Game Rangers International and their Facebook Page, who do an amazing job training the rangers who risk their lives everyday, in many ways!

@FrancesMForde #FrancesMacForde #MyBlogWorld #AlexanderMcCallSmith #BarbaraPym #EmiratesNewLivery #SupportWildlife #GameRangersInternational