Typical a sentence that was popping up in a 40+ mind. Of course it is already possible to meet each other online. In this situation, the online session was for those happy others that joined Lumb Bank in September 2022 with me. Last Tuesday we had an online reunion and it was a delight to…
Yes, been there. At Lumb Bank it was possible to have a writing ‘mid-week’. Starting on Monday September 26th and ending on Saturday October 1st I had another great stay at one of the houses of Arvon. A cozy house near Hebden Bridge. With a total of 13 authors, we were mentored by two writers.…
So there I am, sitting behind my laptop and on the right a firm espresso and on the left a printed version of the notes from the editor. Via 20books50k I came in contact with the wordfaery. I had still a lot of words to write before the planned check by her, but I managed…
My newest book that I started to write more than two years ago. Now on the market in a digital version. The story takes place in Canada in 1952. With gold as one of the major influencing products in the market. Bernard Bowers wants it, as he needs it to expand his company. The book…
Oh, how I struggle and get a headache in which genre to write. I started with a book about a director of a building company in Canada. The story takes place not a long time after WWII. Gold was as important back then as it is now. Will the antagonist have problems with the gold…
I’ve great fun reading/editing my book. After writing I left it alone for at least ten months. Sure, it was on my mind during that time, but only for a short while as I was writing another book (which I hope to publish also in 2021). That other book is ready for editing, but gets…
I’ve written a book. Well multiple. At this moment I’m editing the book Driven by Gold. I’m happy with the progress. I’m a Dutch native speaker ,so my English (US in this case) is not always correct. That is three fold, because I learned UK English at school, I read a lot of books from…
I can remember that I went to a writing course in England situated beautiful in Shropshire. Learned a lot from both Claire Fuller and Andrew Tailor. At that moment I had only finished one novella (1-way ticket to Mars). I sure didn’t put much effort in refining it once ready. I removed typos and odd…
It’s not that I think that I can earn a living or something like that when I looked for a competition to enroll and win one price after another. It’s just the ideas for writing a shorter work. The possible titles that pop up are great at that moment. Not all contests are like that…
Over the moon. Yes, I’m happy as I’ve done it another time. I’ve written another story. This time under the title ‘The Experiment’. It was not easy at the end as I didn’t have a plot. Learned lesson is that when I write an outline, how flimsy it might be, a plot is handy to…