A woman who must have been about fourty-five, lay in the park reading a book entitled 'Why Men Marry Bitches'. The word 'BITCHES' was written in a bold, bright red font. The woman reading this book wore white bermudas. The colour of her toenails matched that of the word 'bitches'. As did her lipstick and […]
moreIn fact, I could fill up a whole blog on the things we writers say to each other about writing. Yet once you sit down to do it, it's best you forget everything that's ever been said.
moreThis evening I spoke to another screenwriter friend on the phone. As always, we talked about her writing and mine. I mentioned that for me, ending a scene (which in proze often stretches out over a full chapter due to all of the backstory) isn't a good idea because it always takes me at least […]
moreI had dinner with a close friend. She is a director/screenwriter and working on her first novel. When I asked about how she was doing with that, she said she was challenging herself to be as truthful as possible to who she is, to how she views life and what her outlook is on humanity. […]
moreToday, I received a copy of a magazine which published one of my articles. It's a magazine for coin collectors. On skimming through the magazine I felt a pang of jealousy: if only I could feel such passion for collecting something, anything. I envy the excitement a collector must experience when running into an object […]
moreWe visited another school for our son. This school was a special education school. Its philosophy is ‘we follow the child.’ Its method is called Montessori. The teachers don’t stand in front of the class, they sit and wait until the pupils – who work by themselves – come to them whenever they’ve finished whatever […]
moreI went to a reading by a fellow writer whose work I appreciate. He's very well known in Holland. His reading was about his antics as a publisher, years ago. Basically, all of that was motivated by something the Dutch call 'eerzucht' and I suppose can be translated as 'aspiration', or 'a strong drive for […]
moreApparently an article was published about "me" in the Brazilian newspaper O’Globo last Saturday. Now all I have to do is be as good a writer as Kiran Desai, it seems. Well, I guess I should stop dawdling. Download artikel_oglobo_2.jpg
moreI had salt & vinegar crisps for breakfast this morning. Needless to say, I feel like crap. I can’t remember feeling as bad when doing this kind of thing as an adolescent. Quite the opposite in fact.
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