Our guest author today, Áine Greaney, writes about past and present, place and displacement, loss and hope in her book, Trespassers and Other Stories. She travels her characters from coastal Massachusetts to rural Ireland.   Áine has also provided us with her thoughts about writing in a wonderful guest post essay. Here's Áine: Finding and Keeping the Joy in Writing by Áine Greaney In her essay, “305 Cartwright Avenue,” author Chimamanda Adiche recalls growing up in the Nigerian town where her father was a university professor.  Adiche was an Enid Blyton fan, and she read her Enid Blyton kiddie books on a verandah just off her bedroom (I also loved Enid Blyton). About her literary origin story, Adiche writes: “… As a child, books were the center of my world; stories entranced me, both reading them and writing them. My writing, when it is going well, gives me what I like to describe as ‘extravagant joy.” Hmm. These days, when I visit online writer groups or … [Read more...]