Monthly Archives: October 2008

Writing is like any other business

When as a writer one decides to go the independent route, one finds out that writing is just like any other business. Building relationships with people that can help in the quest of getting your words to other people (preferably with some coins changing hands), making it known to the world that one is out

Mission statement: to war!

While gathering ideas for the book “The unprepared philosopher” I have started reading up on philosophy (also: possibly for the sequel “The prepared philosopher”). Reading the greats of philosophy is both a boon and a bust. Let us get the boon out of the way first. After all, it does not befit me to be

Wormsprong in druk verkrijgbaar

Vanaf nu zijn de kinder verhalen de Kronieken van Wormsprong in druk verkrijgbaar. Het boek is geredigeerd en herschreven door de auteur en bevat een nieuw verhaal. (Her)lees de verhalen over de wazen, Bark de boom en de vijf drakenbroers. Het boek is verkrijgbaar bij lulu.com op het volgende adres: http://www.lulu.com/noisepollution. U kunt het boek

Writer by choice. Or am I?

At the opening of a ceramics exhibition of a friend of ours I got into conversation with someone who I hadn’t seen for donkey’s years. We had a typical update conversation and he asked me what I was doing for a living. I told him I had become a writer. I, somewhat defensively, expounded by