I thought I knew your face I thought it to be true I thought it to be real I thought it to be you That was ...
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8. January 2015 Word Count Tracker for 2015
Again, writer Svenja Gosen created her helpful word tracker spreadsheets for 2015. If you like to keep track of your daily writing goal (or if you ...
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5. January 2014 Writing Tool: 2014 Spreadsheets
Phew. The new year ist young but already four days have passed. What about your new year resolutions? The first ones are already broken, I guess. ...
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23. May 2013 Failure
Failure is part of it. You will be rejec…Failure is part of it. You will be rejected dozens and dozens of times. The best way to ...
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9. May 2013 Neil Gaiman’s Commencement Speech
A truly great commencement speech in which Neil Gaiman, author of Coraline{{1}}, doesn’t hold back valuable advice for freelancers in the arts. Given at the University ...
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2. May 2013 How to survive a relationship with a writer
This little cheat sheet comes in handy, when you are in a relationship with a writer. Please pay close attention to #4 and #5. How ...
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30. April 2013 Tooltipp: 750 Words
Writers write. Describing a writer’s work is thus easy. A writer who doesn’t write, isn’t one. Even if this sounds easy and obvious, most writer’s faces ...
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15. April 2013 Don’t be you
[box style=”note”] Don’t be so overly sensitive You are saying. Don’t bother me with your emotions Is what you mean [/box] (4 lines) ...
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14. April 2013 The Key
[box style=”note”] I write To explore I write To see through the veil I write To understand I write To explain ...
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13. April 2013 Chaos
Piles of Clothes Stacks of Paper Invoices in between Unpaid Lurking dishes Smelling dustbin Ever present In the back of my head Lurking, ...
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5. January 2013 Evolution of a Story: TMA 02 – Clustering
During the brainstorming session last sunday I worked out some ideas for the stories background, with the help of a fellow writer. We agreed that it ...
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31. December 2012 Evolution of a Story: TMA02 – Brainstorming
[box style=”note”] Read the first step: The Idea [/box] Again, the unformed story of many small fragments had some time to rest and grow in the subconscious, but ...
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30. December 2012 Evolution of a Story: TMA02 – The Idea
Writers are geniuses. They produce great ideas out of thin air. With a slight of hand they create a complicated story and win the Booker Price. ...
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9. December 2012 Reading diet: Mackintosh
[box style=”warning”]Spoilers possible[/box] I started my reading journey with W. Somerset Maugham’s short story “Mackintosh“. The story mainly follows a mid-aged Scottish male named Mackintosh. Pneumonia ...
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8. December 2012 Reading Diet
The first TMA for A215 left us with the free choice between doing a piece of fiction, poetry or life writing. Against my usual preferences I ...
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8. December 2012 Why I’m doing A215
[box style=”notice”]Read this first: What is A215?[/box] Everybody can write, yes. But being a writer – or a published author – means more. It means constant ...
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16. November 2012 NaNoWriMo-Tools
NaNoWriMo 2012, means National Novel Writing Month, has started today. For all you Wrimos our there, I’d like to link to some ueful tools: The ...
