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.

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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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“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...
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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...
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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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Writing Emotion

Out of the Mouths of Babes This post was inspired by a comment made by my eleven-year-old son. It was prompted by his question regarding...
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Experimenting

Be Brave I’ve been writing seriously for years. The more I wrote (and read the work of other authors), the more I experimented with different...

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