It was an eager pair of travelers who set out for Dublin in the middle of August – myself and my 16-year old son, both first timers to Ireland. We stayed at an airport hotel, and the next day we met with the rest of the gang. Our first stop: the waterfalls near Powerscourt – …
On our visit to Ireland, I went on a small excursion to Hook Lighthouse, the oldest still manned lighthouse in the world. The lighthouse looks modern on the outside, but on the inside it looks kind of like the old churches where I live – it’s from the 13th century, just like those buildings, and …
Läs mer ”Hook Lighthouse – the oldest still working lighthouse”
On our trip to Ireland, we got to visit Inis Mor – one of the Aran Island. It was amazing! We arrived in the harbor and rented some bikes. Noel and I both got mountain bikes, and we were so grateful for that! The paved roads were fine for any bike, but the smaller roads …
The first few nights of our trip to Ireland were spent at Wilton Castle, Wexford, an amazing location in the Irish countryside. The castle usually caters to weddings, I think. We were really fortunate that we got to rent the whole castle for our stay! It was the perfect place for a writing retreat, not …
That was an intense 10-days and nights spent in Ireland! My firstborn and I joined a gang of writers (most of whom I met on the WXR two years back) to travel the Irish countryside and attend Worldcon 2019 in Dublin. What a rush! It was such a great trip and I’ve got so many …
I think I used to be able to sleep at night, sometimes, once upon a time. The first time I had trouble sleeping was while I was pregnant a little over 15 years ago, when I had undiagnosed preeclampsia symptoms that made it impossible for me to sleep more than an hour and a half …
When we came home in August from the Writing Excuses cruise, my to-be-read-list had grown extensively and I was looking forward to reading loads of new books all year long. But then I just couldn’t! Every book I picked up I started analyzing, or my mind wandered off inventing new magic systems or I was …
I’ve been blogging almost constantly for many years now, and what happens when I do a writer’s course? I stop writing. Or not really, I’ve only stopped writing the blog – I’ve been reading and writing more than almost ever before, and these past six weeks doing the course Writing the Other with Nisi Shawl …
So how was it like being a writer’s spouse on the cruise? It was fun to see you are not as odd as I’ve believed! There are plenty others that are crazy just like you! What about the programs for the spouses? It would have been nice with more programs, but on the other …
Läs mer ”Interview with Niklas about what it was like to be a spouse on the Writing Excuses Retreat”
What I did that worked: Before going on the cruise I tried to read as many of the authors as I could. That turned out to be not all of them, because we were simply so busy trying to get the kids prepared for us being away for ten nights and all the other arrangements …