Writer in a Foreign Land

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...

Last week Chuck Wendig published a blog post  which is like mirror or like a punch in your face, depending how used you are to be candid wi...

"..So avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad, use...

It's NaNoWriMo and NaNoWriMo means discipline. If you don't sit down every day and write, you will end up with a huge pile of words...

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...