Author Archives: Belle Farrell-Byrne

I have varying stints of renewal from time to time, waves of ideas and way outs crashing over my cynical psyche, I figure write a blog post while I’m upbeat enough, last week was a bit of a high wall I hit: A piece of childhood was lost, a career avenue hit a dead endContinue reading “Just For The Record”

Let’s face it fellows scribes, this isn’t plan B, this is the last name on the school register, the highest number in the line, the last plane out. Some of us may have the fortune of knowing what to be from the get-go, like a costume you always wore in Kindergarten, the books you likeContinue reading “Plan, Alphabet”

I’m having an odd time of it, due to a saga of intended violence a few years back I am transformed. A layer of myself was stripped away from me, I didn’t notice at first, nobody does really. But a funny thing happened that made quite the revelation, not all phobias are straightforwardly arachnid. MineContinue reading “To Be Blunt…”

I can’t imagine a more time-consuming, thankless gambit in The Arts than The Writer, especially The Writer That Never Makes It. Sometimes I wish Muse never found me in that way, like most I wish the chance encounter was a more bankable one. It was, once upon a time, the writer’s bread and butter wasContinue reading “In the Badlands”

I stumbled across my poetry collection, a following up to The Shrinking Violet Verses… I thought they remained stashed away from being published because of funds or my indecision of finding a nice Owl cover. Upon reading them again I remembered why I left it alone, they each come from a very dark place. AContinue reading “Muse in a Dark Place”

However great the phenomenon of reading parties and Author Table Concerts of J.K Rowling were, she did us a disservice – She made it look easy to the outside world. Yes, she was struggling but she has a career as some writers do, the old stereotype of writing being the profession of rich retirees hasContinue reading “Dead end…Again?”

The dawn of the internet was Panoramic, unfathomable and over the years it has chipped away certain mysteries and conundrums. It’s a microscope to all that was previously unseen and roughly guessed about, certain things were out of your hands; fame, research information, the publishing world itself! Back in the day some infamous publishing housesContinue reading “Lone Wolf’s Lament”

I am so not the computer whizz I used to be, sure we’ve all adapted quickly from the cranky keyboard of the AOL server that took forever and a day. But those days of the mouse finding the tools you need are long gone… I’m more miffed that melancholic, I’m sure even with my poorContinue reading “The Meek Geek”

LIGHTNING FAST FADS Apparently the subject I’m writing is already unfashionable? Well isn’t that nice of Pop Culture to say? ‘Sorry, as relevant as this is it just doesn’t have enough Chanel in it!’ How very charming! People wouldn’t believe I finished my Vampire novel around the same time one came and demolished it all?Continue reading “Ciao Belle (Farrell-Byrne)”