November 2, 2019 at 8:15 am (Artists and Writers, destinations, Explorers, Links, Places, Recommended, Weather)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, England, Ireland, Liverpool, museums, Tyrone Guthrie Centre
Viveka on my guilty pleasures has the most beguiling photographs on this week’s Photo-a-Week Challenge: ATMOSPHERIC. So inspiring!
Thank you, Nancy Merrill, for the prompt: Share a photo (or two or three) with a distinct atmosphere.
Here are a few of self’s atmospheric shots.
Liverpool Docks, yesterday:
Park in front of IMMA (Ireland Museum of Modern Art, Dublin):
Dublin, park in front of IMMA, last Tuesday, 29 October 2019
The TGC at Annaghmakerrig, where self spent October:
Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig, Republic of Ireland, last week of October
What is it about the Fall? It’s becoming self’s favorite season to travel.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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October 24, 2019 at 12:16 pm (Links, Traveling)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, Cee Neuner, Ireland, seasons, transitions, Tyrone Guthrie Centre
Seriously love this prompt, from Cee Neuner: TEXTURES.
Reminds self of the thing she enjoys most about FALL.
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October 22, 2019 at 5:28 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, Filipino Writers, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, artists residency, novel, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, writing process
From 4:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m., this group was kept constantly occupied with reading and rigorous forms of self-affliction: lying face-down on the stone floor of the chapel, or bathing from a pump in the chilly pre-dawn. This was calculated to prepare them for the rigors of an overseas mission. They dedicated themselves to the study of languages, such as Dutch, English, French, and German. They received medical instruction, for they would be required to run hospitals. Last, they received guidance in the writing of their own sermons, and in the performance of miracles.
(If indeed this turns out to be an ACTUAL HISTORICAL NOVEL, then self will have to cut out all the parts about miracles)
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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October 20, 2019 at 12:06 pm (Artists and Writers, Family, Filipino Writers, Flowers, Links, Places, Relatives, Sundays, Traveling, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, artists residency, birthday, Garden, happiness, Ireland, Tyrone Guthrie Centre
Layered landscape.
“You can include images of buildings, landscapes, seascapes, clouds . . . ”
The prompt was so interesting!
Here are self’s takes on LAYERED.
- Worktable in her writing studio at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre: layered in books and papers
- Layered plantings at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre:
- Layers of purple, her daughter-in-law’s favorite color. Bought her this bouquet on her birthday in September.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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October 19, 2019 at 2:16 pm (Books, Personal Bookshelf, Surprises, Women Writers)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, Ireland, Saturday, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, weekends
- If St. Callixtus was thrown into a pit, as his acts relate, it seems probable that he was put to death in some popular tumult.
(Self is just through reading this super-exciting section in which she tries to piece together exactly what earned St. Callixtus the designation ‘Martyr,’ when she hears KNOCK KNOCK!!! It’s someone from the Main House: The Goblin Emperor, which she ordered from Kenny’s Bookshop in Galway, has arrived! YAY!)
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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October 15, 2019 at 10:10 am (Conversations, Filipino Writers, Philippine History, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, happiness, historical fiction, inspiration, Ireland, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, work-in-progress
Self added a scene to her novel-in-progress today and is quite happy with it (p. 68 of 341 pp.)
Murcia, 1762
Father Soriano: “Is there no end to your obstinate impudence? What can you hope for?”
Matias: “Why, to fight against devils.”
Father Soriano: “I should strike you for such impiety. What makes you think you can fight against devils?”
Matias: “I shall strike them in the belly and when they least expect it. The Lord shall assist me.”
Father Soriano: “What impudence! The Lord assist — you? Ask away, then. I doubt He will listen.”
Stay tuned.
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August 9, 2019 at 4:44 am (Artists and Writers, Books, destinations, Filipino Writers, Lists, Places, Traveling, Weather, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, horror, Ireland, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, work-in-progress, writing process
from the Dictionary of Birds (1985):
- a ‘large, homogeneous, successful group probably at the summit of another evolutionary line.’
from Birds of the Western Palearctic (Unforgivable, in self’s view, that Dee fails to provide a date of publication):
- ‘Predator, scavenger, food-pirate … taking almost anything available of suitable size, texture, etc’
Self’s horror story The Rorqual (currently 51 pages — self is so out of control!) uses exactly these kinds of dictionary definitions (in self’s case, pages long) to describe her ‘pagos’ and her ‘longnecks’ and her other what-not. She birthed this horror in Tyrone Guthrie. She can’t seem to write any of it until she returns to Annaghmakerrig. California is just too dry, too intensely hot, too savagely suburban.
Stay tuned.
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May 5, 2019 at 2:12 pm (Links, Places, Sundays, Traveling)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, artists residency, Ireland, spring, Tyrone Guthrie Centre
Self has an enduring love of windows, which is why she is constantly taking pictures of them.
This week, she joins A Photo A Week Challenge. This week’s prompt: THREE OF A KIND (three photos of the same subject)
Below, three views, same window in the Main House, Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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November 14, 2018 at 4:19 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Filipino Writers, Links, Places, Traveling, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, artists residency, Cee Neuner, inspiration, Ireland, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, writing process
Cee Neuner, thank you for coming up with such interesting prompts.
When Self Can’t Sleep: 3 a.m. in her cottage at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig
Late October: Walking back to the cottage after dinner in the Main House, Tyrone Guthrie Centre
The cottages at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig make maximum use of natural light.
Self was able to keep working on Blue Water, Distant Shores, her novel-in-progress about 18th century Philippines (As of now, 322 pages)
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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November 7, 2018 at 5:56 am (Artists and Writers, Surprises)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, causes, elections, Ireland, politics, Tyrone Guthrie Centre
5:36 a.m. in Annaghmakerrig, self stumbled around the dark room, looking for her MacBook.
Open.
Beto O’Rourke down three points to Ted Cruz in Texas.
Upper Chamber of Maine legislature (Senate) flips to Democrats.
Real-Time Seat Forecast:
U.S. Congress: Democrats + 33
U.S. Senate: Republicans + 3
On Twitter, first tweet self read is from Karl Taro Greenfeld and he says : “. . . seeing Nancy Pelosi . . . ”
What? What? We’re still in business?
Stay tuned.
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