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 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…
Toe maar. Net een vierde korte verhaal vertaald en naar een ebook omgezet. Ik heb daarvoor materiaal van het Gutenberg Project gebruikt en daar oudere sience fiction verhalen gevonden. Wel een leuk proces om te doen en uiteindelijk terug te vinden in de ebook-winkel. Hoe start ik, eigenlijk simpel. Ik zoek een werk uit waarvan…
Now with the virus still conducting that we should be staying at home, I have given in to a long wanted dream. As you know I’ve written a couple of stories and books. My dream is that the books will be available as audio books. I have extended my studio and invested in a professional…
One way or the other I had yesterday completely for my self. I had read in a book of Simon Haynes the option of writing in blocks of 500 words. I liked the idea and tried it yesterday. I did enjoy it very much. What is the recipe for this? Define the size of a…
It sometimes takes more than expected time, but then again the journey is sometimes better than the end station. I finished the first draft of my book that I’ve given the title ‘Driven by Gold’. A historic mistery. Now that I reached this station, I look ahead to stations further down the road like the…
I sometimes remind other people of a saying. I don’t think it is a complex one. To move a mountain start with the first stone. Ok, to really move it, you have to keep on performing the same steps over and over. Pick up a stone, carry it to the new location, drop it and…