Claire Gallagher
Claire Gallagher is known inside the Colony as Claire G. If you’re not yet a member, join us now.
Claire is a self-published author of contemporary romances. She has a literary agent and is aiming to traditionally publish her more psychological novels.
Latest Writings from Claire Gallagher
A Christmas Reflection
If you read my Christmas Snippets post, you'll be aware that I suffered a psychotic episode in 2019. This was followed by a long...
Christmas Snippets
Port and Lemon and Dirty Jokes My nan was the type of woman who couldn’t walk to the shop without stopping at least three times...
Christmas is Cancelled!
When I was eight years old, I auditioned for a part in my school’s Christmas play, Christmas is Cancelled! Despite being a shy child, I...
Love, Christmas
The Long and Short of It I enjoy writing short stories, which is a complete one-eighty compared to how I used to feel. I used...
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Good There’s so much to love about writing – the excitement of that initial spark of an idea; the stimulation of the challenge to...
“Take what resonates, toss the rest”
Giving Feedback The title of this post is a sentence that’s often used at the end of a fellow writer’s feedback in the Lab, and...
In Other Words…
I’m Fine Whenever I meet someone new, I try to learn their language. I don’t mean French or German; I mean things like what they...
It’s Not the End of the World
Well, it sort of is… I’ve been fascinated by dystopian fiction for many years – any story which explores a dramatic change in the way...
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