01 Sep
Prod-Activity

… and we’re back! As predicted, this August was a productivity-fest of epic proportions. What I have come back with from my blog austerity month (apart from an obviously big appetite for cheesy exaggerations) is a to-do list full of checks. Would you believe, I even pushed the button to send my first two chapters [...]
09 Aug
Favourite Sins and Favourite Blogs

Ten days ago,  I have sworn myself into a state of what I would call an “alert blogging hibernation”, in order to cope with my August to-do list. Meaning: no commenting, no posting in August. Productivity first.
As you can see, that worked really well. But being a master at making exceptions to my own rules [...]
28 Jul
Setting Priorities and Other Nuisances

People who know my non-blogosphere persona well enough can confirm that I am one of these people who constantly have at least three balls up in the air at once. Setting priorities? Naw, not for me, dude. There’s just too much interesting stuff out there that has to be explored.
Arriving in Berlin, exhausted by a [...]
23 Jul
Short-Term Gain Vs. Long-Term Pain

Guess it is fair to say that writers tend to reflect a lot – either on paper or in their head. Combine that with a diploma course in coaching and you end up with a freaking mirror ball. And this is exactly how I currently feel like.
When I started my coaching diploma only four weeks [...]
15 Jul
Writer’s Rejection Recovery Programme

Us writers are sensitive folk. That’s why we can pick stuff out from our environment and digest it into a story that is funny, heartbreaking or thrilling. It comes in handy when you need to tune in with a character, too. It’s less handy though when rejection, this bitter companion of creative expression, rears its [...]
14 Jul
Going for Extremes

So we witness Berlin’s hottest spell (37-39 degrees in the shade, anyone? Anyone?) evvaa. After its coldest and snowiest winter since 1947. But c’mon Berlin. Is that all you’ve got? I am not impressed.
Because although in many regards I am a middle-of-the road person, neither prone to extreme emotions, crazy ideas (apart from jumping out [...]
02 Jul
Writer’s Digestion

Today’s comment of Merrilee, an Australian blogging writer whose great mix of insight and sarcasm I very recently discovered,  on my blog post on inspiration, triggered a thought that I keep wondering about:
Is inspiration a spark, quick and unpredictable, a divine spur of the moment? Or is it rather the result of putting enough experiences, impressions and books [...]