Welcome to my new blog

 


I have just recently started to write on my own projects again. After over 10 years of freelance writing, translating, and reviewing, I decided it was time to take the risk - and after one week of it, I already feel that it has done wonders for my mood.

It all started when I received an email from Infostack about a new writer's bundle being available. I thought the timing was interesting because I was in the middle of a rather frustrating freelancing experience. I bought the bundle and thought I'd just use it to improve my skills and for the included software. It was a good deal. What really happened when I looked at the list of offerings after I bought it was this, though:

I saw a course by Carissa Andrews included in the bundle, and it looked interesting but also a bit uncomfortable to me (because it reminded me of what I was not doing). It was only a short course for about half an hour each day. Nothing to lose.

Just the first couple of days changed my attitude towards my own writing. I even wrote a little book about how to be a more productive writer (I'll talk about that in another blog post once it's gone through the first few reviews). I started putting my poetry in a collection (still working on that one as it's too short for publishing). I did my own stuff, and I felt good about it.

I still hadn't touched my story ideas for my novels, though. I was just experimenting, testing how things work and feel. This might be because my story ideas are precious to me, and I don't want to mess them up. But then I asked myself: isn't not writing them also messing them up in a way?

Now I am working on a totally new novel, as I feel there's too much baggage attached to told stories, characters, and designs. I will return to these at some stage, but for now, I want to start fresh with a new idea that popped into my head a couple of days ago.

I want to use this blog to document my progress. On the one hand, it's to motivate me to keep going - and to do some extra writing. On the other hand, I also think that it would be nice to share some things I found with other readers and writers. If something helped me, it might be helpful for others, too.

The first one I share with you is Carissa Andrews. She's put together some interesting writing courses (see link above). You can follow her on various social media sites, and she also has a podcast. I haven't read any of her novels (yet), so I can't say whether I'd recommend them or not. However, her writing courses make me believe she knows what she's doing!


Location: Scotland, UK

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