Writer in a Foreign Land

Have you ever heard "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader". It is part of a quote from Robert Frost. The sentence is fo...

Last week I confessed that my first drafts are too short. With 30'000 words, they are a kind of bare bones drafts or extended plots. Ho...

I am still rewriting my story and simultaneously translating it from German to English. Remember?  I am glad I decided to do this.  Whe...

As a writer you need two hats. One is for writing, where you should limit your thoughts on such profane things like grammar or the perfect ...

Recently I read and heard a lot about money in writing, business and all the discussions around it. Last week I read a blog post from Micha...

Now it's time to get some real work done. We had some theory, we looked at some excellent examples of humor in writing and now it's...

In the last two blog posts we went through a bit of theory on humor in writing. Let's look at some good examples, before we talk about ...