Monthly Archives: February 2010

Index of a writing week #14

It has been a very productive week. Which also means I virtually worked my b*tt off! But that is not a problem as I love what I am doing. Work this week consisted of writing for the blogs (see links below) but also the first translation job for Manage-mend, the company I started last week. …

February 26, 2010 – 4:26 pm | By Henk | Posted in News | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Betrayed

Mature content warning: the following story contains scenes of violence and gore. And if you are easily offended with regards to religious themes, better not read it either. In a time not impossibly far removed from ours, six seals were broken. Pestilence, War, Famine and Death, released with the breaking of the first four seals, …

February 26, 2010 – 2:52 pm | By Henk | Posted in Short stories | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

Rules for writing: one rule to destroy them all

I have been browsing a few blogs about writing these last couple of days. The object being that I wanted to get a feel for what is the buzz in the writing community on the Internet. It is very easy to get bogged down in work, work, work and forget there is a world out …

February 25, 2010 – 8:50 am | By Henk | Posted in Scratch pad | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

Translating poetry: the art of damage control

I have been asked to do a translation of the Dutch poem “Stad aan de Wadden” by Simon Vestdijk. It is a poem about Harlingen, a Dutch town on the shores of the Wadden sea in the North of the Netherlands. The town has a long history of fishing and shipping and as such has …

February 24, 2010 – 10:46 am | By Henk | Posted in Poetry, Scratch pad | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (3)