Wine, music, and hullabaloo … Reading “Tilda & Leo” in Aachen
Or: What’s the horse doing there? I wondered where that horse would go in the old town of Aachen. When driving down for my reading I followed that horse box…
Or: What’s the horse doing there? I wondered where that horse would go in the old town of Aachen. When driving down for my reading I followed that horse box…
How the insanity of NaNoWriMo actually keeps me sane Let’s face it, the organisers of the annual writing challenge NaNoWriMo did a brilliant job in chosing Novembers for it. Especially…
… or: Right on track – just about The NaNoWriMo statistics are delightfully cruel and insightful. They are my prime motivation to keep going, and most writers are pushed to…
… and why every writer should use NaNoWriMo to kickoff their big projects Hi guys, on a whim and even without FIRST hitting the word count of 1700 daily, every…
A chat about the difficulty to protect “office-hours” (includes NaNoWriMo and coffee) Being a writer surrounded and held by a network of friends who are or are not writers is…
The time has come that I stand up and cheer for an author’s achievement. What. A. Read. “Hild”. Is. I spent a much too long time reading Nicola Griffith’s “Hild”…
Source: terribleminds, Not All Locker Rooms, But Yes, Some Locker Rooms
Locker rooms. Country clubs. Capitol Hill. It’s all the same, all variations on that fort we once built in the backyard, replete with “No Girls Allowed” over the door. The…
… as I see it 😉 Every writer who takes her craft seriously will have several “must-haves”, things she needs in order to function. These things can be technical, surroundings,…
… and neither is it a photograph Regardless of genre: Setting is atmosphere, texture, mood, basis for every story. Not only the stage props in which people act. But so…