Paddy
Gormley has been writing professionally
since the late 1970s. The diversity of his output reflects
his remarkable portfolio career spanning business, teaching and
the performing arts. His projects include plays, radio talks
and books; some completed, others in progress; many seeking
production or publication.
The Exciting
Writing website shows how:
PG may be able to help your business by writing excitingly
for you or reviewing your text: speeches, editorial,
promotional materials, website copy, etc.
You can support Paddy Gormley's Exciting
Writing with project
funding, public speaking or production / publishing opportunities.
GET YOUR MESSAGE ACROSS
WITH PADDY GORMLEY'S EXCITING WRITING
The principal features of Paddy Gormley's Exciting
Writing style
are clarity, quality of language and use of humour.
CLARITY
He is acutely aware of the need to capture readers'/listeners'
attention immediately, and to maintain the engagement with
every sentence. This is particularly important when writing
for radio or the internet: radio listeners and website
visitors have got to be hooked if they're to be persuaded to
stay more a few seconds. PG uses thought-provoking ideas
and short sentences.
EVOCATIVE LANGUAGE
Paddy Gormley's language is both evocative and innovative. He
is particularly skilled at devising apt metaphors that engage
the imagination by encouraging readers and listeners to create
their own pictures in the mind's eye. His inventive style
(underpinned by simple techniques such as assonance and word-play)
is designed to increase readers' and listeners' enjoyment of
the text itself and, ultimately, to make his messages more
memorable.
HUMOUR
Even PG's use of humour is purposeful. His work in
business and teaching has led him to the conclusions that persuasion
is primarily governed by emotion rather than intellect, and
that people are more likely to be persuaded when they are in
a positive frame of mind. Humour makes us happier and,
accordingly, more receptive to persuasive communications.
The
other pages of this site
include details of and links
to
Paddy Gormley's many
writing projects,
often with illustrative click-to-play recordings and PDF downloads.
The click-to-play audio
recording below illustrates not only Paddy Gormley's
qualities as a speech-maker, but also his ability to offer new
insights based on strategic and economic thinking.
Paddy Gormley's development as a writer owes much to his
relationship (since 1999) with Actors & Writers London. The
drama/fiction page of this website features many recordings of
performances by AWL colleagues.
VERSATILE WRITER AND SPEAKER
Paddy Gormley
can deliver high quality, truly exciting writing that meets the
specific demands of any medium:
his huge output of published and unpublished work includes
articles, books, research reports, conference presentations, websites,
radio talks, after-dinner speeches, theatre plays, radio plays,
short stories, teaching materials, verse, poetry and philosophical
writing.
PG's work has appeared in publications as diverse as Music & Musicians magazine
(he was a regular contributor for several years in the late 1970s
and 1980s) and the Financial Times,
writing occasional articles for the paper's Inside
Track page.
One
of his poems has appeared in The
Independent newspaper's Poem
of the Day column.
His
first independent research reports (into large companies' attitudes
to solicitors) gained coverage in the national press, including The Times and Daily
Telegraph.
His public speaking has ranged from Actors & Writers London (London's leading professional play-reading group: see left)
to the Guildhall in the City of
London (where he was the star
turn at a major dinner for the Royal
Institution of Chartered Surveyors).
Click
the image on the right
for the AWL website
TAKING
EXCITING WRITING TO A WIDER AUDIENCE
This work has been underpinned by Paddy Gormley's investment
of time and talent, consistently over more than twenty years,
in his own Exciting Writing projects. His
ground-breaking primer of writing techniques, Language
with Altitude, remains unpublished. Some of his
most deserving theatre plays and radio talks have not yet been
produced. And so on.
If you might be able to help, or if you know someone else who
might be interested, please take a look at the other pages of
this website and get in touch.
OTHER ASPECTS OF PADDY GORMLEY'S WORK
The Exciting Writing project is closely connected with Paddy
Gormley's other activities:
(click any image for the corresponding website)
wordsinaction.info
details PG's work
as a teacher of creative thinking and writing skills
dabhands.info
features Paddy Gormley's
work in digital audio production
paddygormley.info
is a portfolio of
links to sixty websites created by PG
