Alright, I’ll admit it. I started a new blog. More focused, more about the creative process, less about me. Go and see it! It’s the Self-Help Aisle for the Creative Deprived.
I like milk in my tea. So I reached for the milk carton in the fridge, but doing from a strange angle, the milk got stuck behind the shelf above and fell from my hand onto the floor. I got to it before my livingroom flooded. My friend couldn’t help but laugh, as I was […]
Carrie and Charlotte are in a café having lunch. As women do, Charlotte ordered something low-food and explains she will never go all naked in the sauna because her thighs are too thick. Carrie, as a good friend, tells her she is delusional. In return, Carrie tries to show her ex’s fiancee how fabulous she […]
As a journalist I have had the notion once that I could change the world. As the regular life took me in more and more, I realised that changing the world is one hell of a goal. And, as many people will have experienced with me, then there is the ego. Ah, the ego. Which […]
Oh Yes, we made it! 2013. Can you believe it? And what about the resolutions, you have thought up over the last weeks. You can’t convince me that you haven’t thought about what to change and what could be better. Articles, blogs, conversations, radioshows, television episodes and drunken fits: all filled with promises. I think […]
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 2.900 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 5 years to get […]
Alright, already, I will write something about the past year. Since the past year hasn’t been without trouble. At all. Last year was probably the most challenging year I had since the moment I was born. Although I might have had that thought before and probably will experience another year like this in the future. […]
This holiday I will be a burrito. Seriously, I am not kidding. They said, I could be anything I wanted to be, so I will be a burrito. I won’t be a burrito of sadness, but I will be a burrito of cocoon bliss. You might think I have lost my mind and yes, this […]
So, it’s just one of those weeks. Where you don’t want to wake up. And you know, everything is fucked, everybody sucks. You might fill in the rest of these lyrics, but I really know why. It was just one of those weeks. I can’t remember when I had so much drama going on. I […]
I knew this day was going to come. The day I had to write the review. Of ‘F**k It Therapy, the profane way to profound happiness’. Dumdumdum. But I feel my words are going to fall short of the awesomeness of this book. What can I say? The book is awesome. There is really nothing more […]
The other day I tweeted that I have at least one big remark on the book of John and Gaia, the F**k It Therapy: I have too little time to read it. Well, the universe got my message and decided, instead of telling my boss to give me spontaneously some days off, to give me […]
Two weeks back John C. Parkin from the F**k It books and retreats send all us Fuckiteers an e-mail asking who wanted to read the review copy of their (John ánd Gaia’s) new book, The F**k It Therapy. I had to reply ‘yes, me, me, me’. I know, I am f**king eager, but hell, why […]
Consider this: you walk from your house in the morning, it’s early, the sun is just up, although you can’t exactly see where it is. The clouds are more present today. You think about the warm room you just came from. You think about the bed, neatly made, but still inviting. And then you think […]
There is a expression in Dutch that says ‘het kwartje is gevallen’, in English: ‘the quarter had dropped’. Meaning: you got it! And in our country, it often takes a while (‘het heeft even geduurd maar het kwartje is gevallen’, or ‘he he, het kwartje is gevallen’, translated as ‘it took a while but in […]
Insight of the day: I am not a blogger. I am a writer. Difference? I don’t do very well with structural blogging on a daily basis. Something that my blog name would imply. Even so, I am here again. What draws me back here? You, of course, and other than that, the experiences I have […]
So here are three tips (and a bonustip!) for the true camper. Three things you shouldn’t do while attending NaNoWriMo: Home deco: the danger of planning time off with just you and your computer is that other chores are begging for your attention. They are saying with tears in their voices ‘please, Anne, now you […]
Alright, the weekend over, went to bed quite early yesterday, so off to a good start? Not so much. I am really tired and noticed last night that I am completely stuck in my story. Still to much concerned about all the things my story has to be (superb amongst other things). So, this evening […]
Some days are more bizar than others. I am not saying I saw pink elephants today. But it went suite different than I had planned. Ergo: life is not planneble. Perhaps on a small scale, yes, but somehow things always turn out different than you think. It would be grant if I was talking about […]
So, day 2 has not been a great writing day for me, Camp NaNoWriMo wise. It probably most of all had to do with the beautician appointment I made, by mistake (which was awesome by the way). I have written today, here it comes, wait for it, about 300 words! Oh yeah. Therefore, I can’t […]
The weather forecast for tomorrow is: rainy. Although I had a great time in the park today, taking a power nap with my colleague during our lunch break, rainy weather is better for August. This August, that is. Because rainy weather is writing weather. No need to go outside and greet the sun. Cocooning is […]
Yesterday evening, the news of eight o’clock. I tuned in rather late. The last item was showed, but the newsreader went back to Syria, where the reporter had just returned from Tremseh. He told the viewer that the city was not entirely demolished, only blocks of houses were severly damaged. No large pools of blood […]
No, no, we won’t go our separate ways. Absolutely not, even though it feels empty and alone here sometimes, I know, I am here. You have to trust me on this! Following my last English post in which I shared the first scene of my new novel with you, I thought I’d share another experiment with you […]
Al eerder schreef ik over muziek en dan vooral welke muziek ik op zet als ik aan het schrijven bent. Echter, zoals Lydia Sharp van Writer Unboxed schrijft in haar artikel over wat schrijvers kunnen leren van films, kan muziek ook de sfeer neerzetten. Als schrijver gebruik je de muziek dan om je te kunnen […]
Vandaag sprak mijn Elle weekhoroscoop (it’s my thing, forgive me) van wanderlust. Wat een mooi woord is dat toch. Wanderlust. Het verlangen om te reizen. Ik moet helaas nog ruim twee maanden wachten voordat ik welgeteld één week naar Italië ga, maar in mijn hoofd maak ik genoeg reisjes. Vannacht nog naar één of ander dictatorschap. […]
Upon request, I bring you some prose. Self written prose! Can you imagine? And even in English? As I have written before, using a language different than your own has advantages. It will make you leave behind the prejudices that you have with your own language, it makes you break free and write about what […]
