AUTHOR’S JOURNEY
A space for the messy, magical journey of writing. Tools, doubts, some victories, and the moments in between.
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…at the office. Little plate of pasta, 3 decafs, 2 screens and a lot of research and learning done. If you want to write undisturbed and you have young kids (as I do), the quite night office is the way to go. Of course, for the first time, had to explain to my boss why…
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I have plenty. Will someone read my book? Will you feel what I feel when I am writing it? Will you welcome my magical world and believe me it exists? Sometimes I doubt myself so much. I have invested so much time, money, me into these short 3 chapters I have on paper. Will it…
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I built a society. Government, religion, rule, laws, councils. And I have the feeling I am barely scratching the surface. I know when I will write it down the details will need to hold aligned with my believes. Will my believes be believable? Will a society like this hold down and be possible or will…
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The correct answer would be, do a course, of course. Especially because the only thing I studied in my life was business, finance and investments. Don’t take me wrong, those are very useful skills to have in life. But I never took anything creatively, because of yes, for the fun of it. All my studies…
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…a map. And cities. And general geography, politics, religion, and rules. And we might also have a new species of magical beings. And who knows about a multiverse? My brain is going there, but the details required for it are crushing me. One thing is for real, I am enjoying every second of this creative…
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I’ve been struggling with the title for a long time. Until now it was called “book 1″ or ” manuscript 1″. And, to be honest, I did not force it out of me. I believe that everything will come through, that sense of “things will happen when they have to happen” if you work and…
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…Plottr. Not for any particular reason whatsoever. But I like the organisation of it. Creating is chaos, but putting the chaos in paper requires method. Cannot give you all in one go. Need to keep the mistery, need to keep the readers wondering. And for that I require to know it all, how will the…
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Will be a thing from this week forward. Already booked on the family agenda and will have 4h of interrupted writing time every Thursday. Thursdays are for me.
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When this idea started some weeks ago I thought that Microsoft Word was enough. Then came a 50-page Word document with everything – an explosion of unformatted words, pictures and project tables. Going forward, it will be impossible to manage. I have only 8 chapters lined up (already for a month) and can not find…
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Well, it’s my birthday!Not really a newsflash per se. But it’s good to know. The news is that I am now the proud owner of a second-hand computer, where my creativity can fly. I can also separate my daytime job from my night-time job. I can also use all tools available to me to support…
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