David McLoughlin

I’m your  host and the shaker of the Muse (she, he, it, responds to me) and we have a lot of fun when it’s around.

I’ve been writing all my life in one form or another. My first poem was published at the age of seven, about the same time that I gathered an  audience around me in my hospital ward to tell them stories – a consultant yelled at me and told me to get back into bed, but it never dented my desire to write and to perform my stories…I’ve done so now for 51 years.

Most of my working life has involved speaking, listening, interpreting and writing and it has been one of life’s joys. Recently I retired from my work as a Psychotherapist and have begun to write my first novel which is part of a trilogy. Aftershock tells the story of  a Psychotherapist whose life is blown apart by a bomb – and he wasn’t even there when the blast went off. Keep coming to the Muse Shack at http://www.museshack.wordpress.com to read the excerpts.

The door is open. “Come on, on in,” as we say in Ireland and let’s get to know each other. There are only friendly faces here.

David McLoughlin’s Recent Posts

• 10 reasons why writing is easier today
  Last year I established an organisation called Writing2day. The aim is to inform, educate and resource writers from a current perspective on the craft of writing. We are beginning to fulfill our mission statement. So, with the thought on writing today, I offer the following bold statement that 'writing is easier today [More...]