Like visual artists who study at the feet–or at the canvas–of celebrated artists in museums with notebooks and pen/pencils, writers can do the same. Use your next (or your first?) museum or gallery visit as a writing prompt. Go and look at the work, find images that intrigue you, confuse you, or attract you. Take…
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Pacifying Pastimes
What brings me catharsis is stress-inducing. Video games bring me to seat’s edge, spewing nonsensical words that can only be considered cursing because my kids are there and if they’re not, then it’s lots of shits fucks and motherfuckers when I battle against one of the many bosses in Hyrule’s bestiary or struggle at Mario…
Iceland | Summer 2021 | Gullkistan | Part 2
A while ago, in the inaugural post of my irregular blog, I said I wanted to talk about reading and writing while at Gullkistan, an artist residency in Laugarvatn, Iceland. Gullkistan is the third residency I’ve attended, so I had a routine in mind for the time I’d spend in Iceland. I knew that I…
Iceland | Summer 2021 | Gullkistan | Part 1
Welcome to the first post of my irregular blog! Here, I will post about my writing life as it happens. The first post is to recount my writing trip to Iceland and, mainly, to share pictures of this unique island. In June of 2021, I was a resident at Gullkistan Center for Creativity. Gullkistan hosts…