• Relentless

    Every day I am spending time on the book, at least one hour. What I miss? Reading time. Indeed in life one cannot have it all.

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  • I cannot save him anymore. I can only push him through this mad world by hand, protecting him even so slightly from emotional damage.Reality catches with us all; he got at least 10 additional years than I had.Would I like to keep on my motherly protectiveness? Yes.Would I like for him not to have the

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  • Q1 Closing

    As in my left-brain life (the highly rational and emotionless corporate job life, mother of two, and household to run), where the financial closing of the (accounting) books leads my workflow, also my right-brain life (known as an aspiring writer, avid reader, head on the moon, and deep on feelings) needs some closings. So here

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  • Betrayal should have an expiration date. How useless is it to feel betrayed by a dead person? Nobody tells you that death changes nothing for you in terms of emotions. Dead people can still hurt you, they can make you cry, and they for sure can make you feel ridiculous about all that. During all

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  • This blog was a mess. Good to realize it 8 months after I started writing in it. I could not find a single thing! Very impractical since I use it to dump my mind, write book reviews, or vent about the writing process. Categories were created, messages fine-tuned, and everything is ready for the Social

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  • I’ve been struggling with my protagonist’s name for a while now. I realized that her name, beautiful as it was, was not giving me the vibes I needed, and it was hampering my writing. It was not her, not aligned with the fire I wanted her to have. And I was struggling to keep it

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  • Time…

    …really flies. Vacations 2 weeks, friends coming over 1 week, London Book Fair another week.Words written in the last month? Zero. Knowledge about the book business? Much more than before.The book business is an actual business; who would have known? I’ve sure never thought about it before. Writing and reading were always for joy, pleasure,

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  • Doubts

    Doubt creeps in at every new fantastic book that I read. I would like to tell you that I am unrelentingly confident in my writing skills. I know the storyline and how complex and intricate it is, so I know it’s good. What I don’t know is if I will be capable of telling it. 

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  • Objective unlocked

    I can read, whatever I want, if I write one chapter a week. Initial date for this objective: 1 January 2025. So should arrive to the end of 2025 with 52 chapters in paper. Weekly progress will be shared. Next update expected on Sunday, when I should have 6 chapters written. And what about vacations

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  • Choices

    At a certain point, I need to admit it; it’s either writing or reading.With the types of books I read, I cannot even pretend there’s some semblance of control. There isn’t; I submerge so deep in the book I read that I have no space for anything else. So I need to decide. Do I

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