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Paul Dornan

@pauldornan.bsky.social
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London-Irish novelist and screenwriter. Here for bookish/arty/screenwriterly connections, laughs, ideas, chat and did I say laughs? Yes I wear pink shirts a shade too bright and too often. Nobody’s perfect.

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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
This will be an absolute must for all levels of writers I’d say.
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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
It’s very noble of them to sacrifice peace, prosperity and democracy itself for clicks, eyeballs and cheap journo drama.
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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Just wondering if you could kindly repost @kitdewaal.com. Thanks.
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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Free Scholarship opportunity. I’m teaching a new 5 day course in adding lightness, warmth and humour to all levels of prose writing at the famous @faberacademy.bsky.social There’s at least 1 place up grabs. Please share widely. The course will be great fun. faberacademy.com/product/maki...
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Making Light: Adding Humour, Warmth and Wit to your Writing | Faber Academy
Join your fellow writers in the Faber Academy Comedy Writing Room in this new week-long comedy writing course with Paul Dornan in the heart of London.
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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I live in a nice part of London. We’re going to be swamped with all the smart interesting clever Americans fleeing President Trumpski and Comrade Musk. They’ll need to learn we don’t do earnest over here but apart from that, we’ll be fine.
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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I think I might become a born-again Christian just so I can really 100% believe that Trump and Elon Musk will be really going to Hell one day. At the moment I’m just living on a vague lapsed-Catholic hope that’ll be the case. It’s not quite enough.
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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
It seems someone’s been sitting in Sheldon’s Spot. And he doesn’t like it at all.
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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
You have to remember to Donald Trump everything and everyone - every bit of earth, sea, sky and air, every human soul - is just real estate waiting to be bought or sold. And only by him for his gain. That’s his landscape. Worldview. Narrative. There is no other. Goodnight and good luck.
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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
After over 100 years of the American Empire, the citizens are finally gulled into electing their first Emperor. It’s a big fat orange shame for them and the world it’s the kind of bonkers one who marries his own horse.
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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Interesting to come back to Bluesky after a month or so. It’s already perhaps 1.5% crankier, political and less in love with its own loveliness. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. It’s probably only apparent if you’re not here all the time.
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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Just coined a new word reading the first page of ‘Orbital’: Prizey. It felt right somehow. BTW. Is it the thinnest volume ever to win? It’s remarkanbky short for a Prizey book, don’t you think? Maybe the judges were a busy bunch this year and couldn’t be doing with door stoppers.
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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
You know yourself. Just fabulous.
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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
If you ever wondered what it would be like for a truly funny real person to visit a centerparcs.. wonder no more. It’s like Samuel Beckett rewriting a riff by Lenny Bruce round at Peter Kaye’s place. Brilliant.
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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Utter. Genius. Thank you.
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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Do you love a sudden magical thing in a story, a book or, in this case an exhibition? This was in a tiny exhibition about the rise of Nazism I saw yesterday at the CaixForum in Madrid. I have no idea what it is or how it works. But it was a magical moment for me amid the grim reality.
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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
Hi everyone. Thank you @essiefox.bsky.social for giving me a code to join. I'm brand new here this second and wonder if any of my writing friends and #authors on here might say hello.
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