Aine Greaney, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books

Tips for Writing During Tough Times

Aine Greaney — Sun, 24 May 2020 08:51:22 +0000

These days, it seems as if thinking or speaking about anything else except our COVID-19 pandemic seems frivolous or selfish. I mean, why should any of us bother to create or write anything good when our inner and outer worlds have gone so bad? Self-Sabotaging Our Creative Selves In the face of crisis, many of us suspend […]

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Collecting and Editing Our Short Works for a Book-Length Manuscript

Aine Greaney — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 18:41:21 +0000

Collecting and Editing Our Short Works for a Book-Length Manuscript When I decided to pitch and publish a book-length collection of personal essays, I thought that it would be an extended word processing project. I would go to my digital essay folder, download all my previously published essays—including the one published here in When Women Waken. Then, […]

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Short Fiction: A New Year’s Friendship

Aine Greaney — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 12:05:41 +0000

Elaine Walsh Barrington revs up her white BMW and reverses the car out of the double garage behind the house. “I really don’t mind getting a taxi to the station again,” Lorna, her younger sister, says from the passenger seat. “You didn’t have to leave your New Years Day open house like this.” The clenched […]

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How We Change As Writers

Aine Greaney — Fri, 04 Sep 2015 07:32:49 +0000

Last week I was trying to downsize one of my overflowing bookshelves when I came across a copy of my first novel, The Big House. The book was published in 2003 by Pocket Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, U.K. I held my first book in my hands and felt that nostalgia we feel when […]

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Love Letter

Aine Greaney — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 22:36:15 +0000

Dear Writing, It’s Valentine’s Day. Or almost. So now it’s time to tell you what you’ve meant to me and how you’ve changed my heart and life. Good love letters reminisce and remind of those first sightings, those early flirtations and that heady free fall into real love. So here goes. I first spotted you […]

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5 Ways to Spot and Avoid Sketchy Editors and Publications

Aine Greaney — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:59:57 +0000

I still remember that summer afternoon when my mother came upstairs to find me weeping into my pillow. I was 20 years old, and I had just discovered that my boyfriend had been cheating on me. Of course, I told my mother the edited, sanitized version of the story, omitting that part about walking into […]

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The Scariest Moments in a Writer’s Life

Aine Greaney — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 08:12:33 +0000

Vampires? Witches? Ghouls? Yes, they’re Halloween scary (maybe), but they’ve got nothing on the spookiest moments from a writer’s life. All writers can list at least three things that can send us screeching and cowering under our bed covers. I’ll tell you mine (including my fright-busting fixes), if you tell us yours. 1. Eeeek! The […]

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5 Ways to be a Smart, Gutsy Writer

Aine Greaney — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 05:26:38 +0000

I used to think that becoming a writer was like leafing through a travel brochure or scrolling through a vacation website to find that perfect, sunlit place (writing genre). Once I found the perfect spot, I would earmark that page and say, “Yeah, that’s where I’m headed.” Then, once I actually got there, I’d set […]

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My Big Fake Immigrant Memoir

Aine Greaney — Tue, 21 May 2013 13:10:43 +0000

Let’s face it, the American immigration story has been done to death. It’s the “been-there-wrote-that” tale. So would someone please tell why I’m sitting here writing a book-length memoir about leaving my native Ireland, at age 24, to come alone to live in America? While I’m penning my woman’s immigrant story, the very same story is being played […]

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Thanksgiving’s a Holiday Over Here

Aine Greaney — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 18:12:31 +0000

The American man’s voice sounded woken-up and irritated. “It’s Thanksgiving,” he said down that payphone. “So my roommates are off work and gone home. Like, Thanksgiving’s a holiday over here.” Oh, come on, I wanted to say. I mean, with nobody getting born or killed or risen from the dead, just how big could this ‘holiday’ of yours really […]

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