Writer in a Foreign Land

Fiction writer with German mother tongue writes in English. How to bring these ideas into good stories, well told.

Saturday, July 11, 2015

Quo Vadis Writing - End Devices

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F irst if all, sorry about the late posting of this post. I had some kind of first draft, second draft and rewrite-the-whole-thing experien...
Sunday, May 31, 2015

Quo Vadis Writing

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Back in 2009 I wrote my Master thesis about the optimal way to publish a debut novel in Switzerland using business strategy tools. I had a ...
Sunday, May 3, 2015

Humor Reloaded - The Pun

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Some month ago I glanced at puns in my series about humor in writing . But as much as I love them, it is difficult to come up with an origi...
Sunday, April 19, 2015

Foreshadowing

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Hibernation noun (uncountable): When an animal passes the winter in a torpid or resting state. The German word for - literally translated -...
Sunday, February 22, 2015

We Have No Clue What Will Come

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We have arrived in 2015. A truly exciting year. This year we will see the invention of flying cars and highways in the clouds. We will see ...
Monday, January 19, 2015

German Words in English

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My second blog post was about a German word used in English: Wanderlust. In English it has the connotation of longing for far places while ...
Thursday, December 25, 2014

X-Mas in Writing

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It's been looking a lot like X-Mas outside. I love the Holiday Season. Even though work seems to triple during this time, there is a sp...
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