Happy Hallowe’en one and all! I have something very exciting to share with you today! I narrated my first story! And it was so much fun! So if you prefer listening to a story over reading it and if you fancy listening to me reading you my wee Halloween tale (for all ages), during your … More Audiobook: An All Hallows’ Quest
Why you don’t have to write every day to be able to say you are a writer. What makes you a writer? So many articles have been written about this subject. ‘Write every day!’ one piece says. ‘Write a 1000 words every day!’ says another piece. ‘Sit at your desk every day!’ says yet another. … More Blog: How To Be A Writer
Right now, you are reading this post on a public website with short stories free to read by all, but until only the beginning of this year was I terrified to share my fiction with anyone. I didn’t even share my ideas. Especially not my ideas. For they were unoriginal, boring, bad, uninteresting. But I … More Blog: How I Overcame My Insecurity About Sharing My Writing
Behind the story: ‘Crash Landing‘. In this blog series, I write about the stories I have written so far and my personal meaning behind them. Not everyone likes to know what a writer intended when they read stories. A reader might prefer to focus on their own interpretation and keep the writer’s personal view of … More Blog: When An Alien Comes To Visit
An update on my upcoming stories. After taking a summer break, I am very excited to share a little more about the stories I have in the pipeline for you. There is one story in particular that I’m quite excited about. It is a story longer than I have written for a while and one … More Blog: New Stories Incoming!
A blog post on how my summer unintentionally became devoid of writing Summer has always been a challenge for me. Not just because the high temperatures tend to disagree with my body, but also because seeing people go on far away holidays or even a nearby beach or festival while my body and mind keep … More Blog: My (Non-)Writing Summer
A blog post on climate change and on why I wrote ‘Cressida the Witch’ I wanted to expand this blog by writing about the stories I have written so far and my personal meaning behind them. Not everyone likes to know what the writer intended when they read stories though. A reader might prefer to … More Blog: How Children Shape Our Planet
Before you start writing, it can sometimes be difficult to estimate how long a story will turn out to be. Especially as someone focusing on writing short stories, keeping it in fact short can be a challenge for me as I tend to write, for lack of a better word, longwinded. That sentence is in … More Blog: The Challenge of Story Length
When I started writing my own stories, I struggled with finding the right process for me. I was looking for one that would inspire me to keep writing and also keep me productive, but I had a hard time finding it. At first, I just started writing whenever I had a vague idea and I’d … More Blog: Frustrations of Finding the Right Writing Process
I thought I would continue last week’s post with a ‘How to…’ series and write about what I have learned about writing these past ten years. So how to start writing? The answer might sound simple: by beginning! But the road to actually doing that can be bumpy and difficult. We Dutchies have a saying: … More Blog: How to Start Writing
