Tag: Time and Memories
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Learning From Failure
Today, I admit a failed project and how it made me grow. I quit my job to take a year off to fulfill a dream together with my best friend: to write the first book of a series of 6 that we called “Time & Memories”. In the prequel we had worked out a detailed…
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Surviving NYC with Resolution
A long journey. I had planned my trip to New York City to do research about early Irish settlements for “Time & Memories”, a series of 6 books for which I had decided to take a year off to write the first one, which has then evolved into the idea of becoming a full-fledged author…
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Milestone “Writer’s Block” Check!
Doubts, procrastination, loneliness, loss of motivation, empty pages… Or as a friend of mine said to me: “Congratulations to reaching an important milestone in the career of every author: the writer’s block!” (:
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More Than a Full-Time Job
Studying two majors while having a full time job and learning a language. This is how my life feels at the moment.
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Adjustments and My Little Side Project
Do you know that “Thanks god it’s Monday” feeling, because you can finally do, what you want: your work? Do you know this, when your sleep pattern gets completely screwed up during the week, because you can’t pull yourself away from work until later and later each day and you have to reset your inner…
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First Impressions In My New Life
There it was again, this sensation. I don’t know what it is about the nature here that stirrs this in me. But it was the same as everytime I have seen Swedish landscapes: I felt home.
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Let The Adventure Begin!
1600 km northwards, 3 days drive, up to a new adventure, a new life. Collector of different life experiences, ever evolving, never constant. My first night in the camper I spent at a lovely half frozen lake in Northern Germany, enjoying the fresh cold air around my nose in the night, before my trip would…
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How Death Revived My Dream
After this last trip together in October 2013 that I wrote about in the last newsletter, life separated Yoji’s and my paths and the past was buried so deep inside my mind, inaccessible to myself even, that I could only indulge myself in present and future for a while. However, as luck would have it,…
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Time & Memories – News Feed III
Writing a novel with two authors?! How should that work?!Sure, there will be the challenge to align our two different writing styles, but there is more to a novel than just writing. You have to think about plots, characters, locations, scenes etc.. And two minds create more than just twice the number of ideas. It…
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Time & Memories – News Feed II
As promised, some introduction into what kind of books my best friend Yoji “Stephan” Sasaki and I want to write during my year off in 2022. The story evolves around two protagonists that meet around 1808 in Stockholm and about the special and mystic relationship that forms between them. The genre will be somewhere between…