Writing means for me, putting all those available words in the correct sequence. Like string beads on a thread. But is that what it really is, just words? No, not at all. Especially now that I’m reading and learning from ‘Writing 21st Century Fiction’ by Donald Maass. Writing a good book is more than the…
Yes, it is a fact. I finished today the writing of my book. Well, it is actually a novella. As per the definition that a novel/book has more than 40K words. Currently, the counter is at roughly 28K. Onward with the editing. Lots of things will pop up while doing that. Of course multiple spelling…
I’m nearing the end of the novella that I’m writing. The book is about a team of people that will go to Mars without a return ticket. A one way towards the red planet. What will the team find and what will they run into. Up until now, I have not found it complex to…
Sometimes I sit at a location and just want to write something smallish about it. This one came up in my mind when attending an event in Maastricht, the Netherlands. The marching band comes. They play the Dutch national anthem. It is the start of a concert of André Rieu in his hometown Maastricht. People…
Where do you get your ideas from is one of the questions that a writer will get a lot of the times. This is the same for me. I sometimes wonder, what do I do in such a situation? In the neighboorhood, I look around and in some of the seasons, I notice something that…
Some time ago I had started off with a simple story. I only had one paragraph done when I stopped. During a flight back from vacation I extended it to what it now has become. Read it here!