Peter Jordan PhD
@pjordan-writer.bsky.social
Short story writer from Belfast.
BBC Radio 4 & BBC Radio Ulster.
Shortlisted Bridport. 2nd Fish, etc & etc.
Best of net & best small fictions.
2 x Pushcart nominations.
50+ stories published.
Working class.
AuDHD.
Not interested in politics!
BBC Radio 4 & BBC Radio Ulster.
Shortlisted Bridport. 2nd Fish, etc & etc.
Best of net & best small fictions.
2 x Pushcart nominations.
50+ stories published.
Working class.
AuDHD.
Not interested in politics!
Pinned
Cows on the beach at Ballycastle, Northern Ireland. And, why not?
October 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Millions long for immortality but don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
― Susan Ertz
Millions long for immortality but don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
― Susan Ertz
October 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Millions long for immortality but don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
― Susan Ertz
Millions long for immortality but don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
― Susan Ertz
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𝗡𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗬'𝗦 𝗖𝗔𝗩𝗘. 𝗪𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗙𝗢𝗢𝗧,𝗖𝗢 𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗠
This is where Anne Murray lived. She came to Waterfoot when she was 50 and lived here until 1847, when she died, aged 100.
𝗡𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗬'𝗦 𝗖𝗔𝗩𝗘. 𝗪𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗙𝗢𝗢𝗧,𝗖𝗢 𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗠
This is where Anne Murray lived. She came to Waterfoot when she was 50 and lived here until 1847, when she died, aged 100.
October 24, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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𝗡𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗬'𝗦 𝗖𝗔𝗩𝗘. 𝗪𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗙𝗢𝗢𝗧,𝗖𝗢 𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗠
This is where Anne Murray lived. She came to Waterfoot when she was 50 and lived here until 1847, when she died, aged 100.
𝗡𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗬'𝗦 𝗖𝗔𝗩𝗘. 𝗪𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗙𝗢𝗢𝗧,𝗖𝗢 𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗠
This is where Anne Murray lived. She came to Waterfoot when she was 50 and lived here until 1847, when she died, aged 100.
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'At the first sign of a trick or a gimmick in a piece of fiction, a cheap trick or even an elaborate trick, I tend to look for cover. Tricks are ultimately boring, and I get bored easily...'
— Raymond Carver
#Writing #ShortStory #FlashFiction #Tricks
'At the first sign of a trick or a gimmick in a piece of fiction, a cheap trick or even an elaborate trick, I tend to look for cover. Tricks are ultimately boring, and I get bored easily...'
— Raymond Carver
#Writing #ShortStory #FlashFiction #Tricks
October 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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'At the first sign of a trick or a gimmick in a piece of fiction, a cheap trick or even an elaborate trick, I tend to look for cover. Tricks are ultimately boring, and I get bored easily...'
— Raymond Carver
#Writing #ShortStory #FlashFiction #Tricks
'At the first sign of a trick or a gimmick in a piece of fiction, a cheap trick or even an elaborate trick, I tend to look for cover. Tricks are ultimately boring, and I get bored easily...'
— Raymond Carver
#Writing #ShortStory #FlashFiction #Tricks
Passage East, Waterford, Ireland
October 2, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Passage East, Waterford, Ireland
September 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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“I’m having a hard time writing about Sunday. Getting the long hollow feeling of Sundays. No mail and faraway lawn mowers, the hopelessness.”
― Lucia Berlin
A Manual for Cleaning Women
“I’m having a hard time writing about Sunday. Getting the long hollow feeling of Sundays. No mail and faraway lawn mowers, the hopelessness.”
― Lucia Berlin
A Manual for Cleaning Women
September 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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“I’m having a hard time writing about Sunday. Getting the long hollow feeling of Sundays. No mail and faraway lawn mowers, the hopelessness.”
― Lucia Berlin
A Manual for Cleaning Women
“I’m having a hard time writing about Sunday. Getting the long hollow feeling of Sundays. No mail and faraway lawn mowers, the hopelessness.”
― Lucia Berlin
A Manual for Cleaning Women
Benone Strand, Limavady, N. Ireland
September 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Benone Strand, Limavady, N. Ireland
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Avoid the ecstatic adjectives that occupy such disproportionate space in every critic's quiver—words like "enthralling" and "luminous."
— William Zinsser 'On Writing Well'
#Writing
Avoid the ecstatic adjectives that occupy such disproportionate space in every critic's quiver—words like "enthralling" and "luminous."
— William Zinsser 'On Writing Well'
#Writing
September 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Avoid the ecstatic adjectives that occupy such disproportionate space in every critic's quiver—words like "enthralling" and "luminous."
— William Zinsser 'On Writing Well'
#Writing
Avoid the ecstatic adjectives that occupy such disproportionate space in every critic's quiver—words like "enthralling" and "luminous."
— William Zinsser 'On Writing Well'
#Writing
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Anton Chekhov's 6 rules of short story writing
1 Brevity
2 Compassion
3 Truthful description
4 No cliche
5 Objectivity
6 Stay off the soapbox
#writing
Anton Chekhov's 6 rules of short story writing
1 Brevity
2 Compassion
3 Truthful description
4 No cliche
5 Objectivity
6 Stay off the soapbox
#writing
September 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Anton Chekhov's 6 rules of short story writing
1 Brevity
2 Compassion
3 Truthful description
4 No cliche
5 Objectivity
6 Stay off the soapbox
#writing
Anton Chekhov's 6 rules of short story writing
1 Brevity
2 Compassion
3 Truthful description
4 No cliche
5 Objectivity
6 Stay off the soapbox
#writing
September 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
September 22, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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1 Make the paragraph the unit of composition.
2 Use definite, specific, concrete language.
3 Omit needless words.
4 Place the emphatic words of a sentence at the end.
— Strunk and White
#Writing
1 Make the paragraph the unit of composition.
2 Use definite, specific, concrete language.
3 Omit needless words.
4 Place the emphatic words of a sentence at the end.
— Strunk and White
#Writing
September 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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1 Make the paragraph the unit of composition.
2 Use definite, specific, concrete language.
3 Omit needless words.
4 Place the emphatic words of a sentence at the end.
— Strunk and White
#Writing
1 Make the paragraph the unit of composition.
2 Use definite, specific, concrete language.
3 Omit needless words.
4 Place the emphatic words of a sentence at the end.
— Strunk and White
#Writing
Portavogie, County Down
September 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Portavogie, County Down
The Mournes, County Down
August 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The Mournes, County Down
Ballycastle, late evening, Causeway Coast And Glens.
August 11, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Ballycastle, late evening, Causeway Coast And Glens.
Cows on the beach at Ballycastle, Northern Ireland. And, why not?
August 8, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Cows on the beach at Ballycastle, Northern Ireland. And, why not?
Reposted by Peter Jordan PhD
Happy birthday, Robert A. Heinlein, born 7 July 1907
5 Rules For Writers
1 You must write.
2 You must finish what you write.
3 You must refrain from rewriting, except to editorial order.
4 You must put the work on the market.
5 You must keep the work on the market until it is sold.
#Readers #Books
5 Rules For Writers
1 You must write.
2 You must finish what you write.
3 You must refrain from rewriting, except to editorial order.
4 You must put the work on the market.
5 You must keep the work on the market until it is sold.
#Readers #Books
July 7, 2025 at 12:10 AM