Tag Archives: Armagh
Just call me Chris Warman
FEAR. Nervous. Anxious. Sweaty. Relieved. Exhausted. Thrilled. Exhilarated. Hyper. Starving. Gratitude. These were the main emotions I felt today. In approximately that order. Now I’m not saying I can outdo the mushball in our group but I am going to give it a try. Thank you so much Terri, Joan and Kimberly for not falling […]
Hotties, history and ducks
Today was a less productive day for me. I only went to one daytime activity, which was the lunchtime reading with Gavin Corbett who was fabulousssssss (and very attractive.) His latest book is titled “This is the Way.” Here is the excerpt from the back cover: “Anthony Sonaghan is hiding out in an old tenement […]
I’m basically just making stuff up
The Hewitt was awesome! I came into it with a very open mind. I had no idea how many people were going to be there, how the speeches were going to go, and especially what was going to be required of me at the historical fiction workshop. When I told one of my good friends […]
Acting like a lady
For me, my audience is largely those back home. To give them some insight into what I’m doing in Armagh and to inspire future students to want to study here. The majority of the things I learned while in here in Armagh I had no idea of back home, the troubles, the murals and the […]
Right on, Write on.
OHMYGOD. This morning, we staged my play and it was other worldly. Honestly. It’s difficult to articulate the sensations I felt as Terri directed and Alison and Joan starred in “Ma.” This piece was excruciating for me to write. The more we work with it, the more comfortable I get with the material. The work […]
We hold these truths to be self evident…blah blah blah
To me, fact is something that can be proven. But this logic applies strictly to my writing as a journalist. Unless I have something stated officially or proven to me I am not going to publish it as a fact. That’s just the way I was taught, I need reliable sources to form my credibility. […]
Mervyn and Tommy
An interesting person that I have met in Northern Ireland…every person I have met in Northern Ireland has been interesting! I suppose the ones who stuck out to me the most were Tommy McKearney and Mervyn Jess. Mervyn is a reporter for the BBC and has been there for 37 years. For the majority […]
A little slice of journalism pie
Trying to compress the entire slavery/segregation struggle in the U.S. down to two pages is really hard. Like really hard. And tomorrow I have to work on the Irish history of the troubles/Protestant and Catholic segregation and narrow it down to two pages. Which I know even less about, so that will also be very […]
Hey dude, will you pass the salt?
Huge portions. 32-oz soft drinks. Cheeseburgers, greasy pizza, and chili cheese fries. Salt. Paying for services you’ll never see. Our flat “O” accent. And in the case of being from Illinois, multiple arrested governors. These are my first thoughts when talking about being an American. But there’s so much more to it than […]
There’s a dinosaur in the backyard
This may sound odd…but I haven’t had a memorable dream in over a year. I often have trouble falling asleep, but when I do I pass out, never a dream to be had. I actually have a theory that I don’t dream because I don’t have the time to read the fiction that I love […]
