I took a Reykjavík city break last weekend without ever leaving Seattle, thanks to the Taste of Iceland event sponsored by Iceland Naturally and KEXP (among others). After visiting the Odin’s Eye exhibit at the Nordic Heritage Museum, the next item on my itinerary was the Reykjavik Writing Jam. Read More
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Reykjavik Writing Jam
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Odin’s Eye at the Nordic Heritage Museum
From the museum website
The Odin’s Eye exhibit at the Nordic Heritage Museum in Seattle’s oh-so-Scandinavian Ballard neighborhood is part of the annual Taste of Iceland by Iceland Naturally event. It was also the event that launched my Reykjavik staycation in Seattle. Read More
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Seattle Writes with a Little Help from my Friends
My computer is littered with false starts. Somewhere between 10,000 and 15,000 words of fiction, I run out of steam, run out of ideas, fall into a plot hole, and don’t know how to continue. So my stories sit, unfinished and abandoned in a folder on my laptop. Last Friday I made it all the way to 16,000 words before I realized I had no idea where I was going. I closed my laptop in disappointment and that night I went to bed a failure.
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Johan Hegg Broke My Leg
Okay, he didn’t actually break my leg, just messed up my left knee pretty badly.
Okay, he didn’t personally mess up my knee.
But it is an absolute fact that I didn’t limp before the Amon Amarth concert last week, and I could barely hobble after it. Read More