The next writing challenge – growing up in 1618!

I have promised to keep this blog a writing diary! A documentary of how I write my witching novel – so, after finishing my first witching novel milestone, there is a new challenge! I have to write the next part. Although that is kind of a given, if I want to finish the novel for

Witching novel milestone!

I took a first step to finishing the witching novel! No, I am not done yet. I still have a very long way to go finishing this work in progress, but for the first time I have handed out a part of the manuscript to my friends. The first 12 000 words are out there!

Stories in mind – why representation matters!

Tonight, I am wondering about the impact a story can have on our life! On our world view.How much they can or cannot shape the eyes we watch through.What we take from them wherever we go next. This keeps bothering, because recently I struggled more than before with representations I saw consumed so easily by

Mood board for my witching novel!

I finally made one. I loved the idea and was thinking about it for a while now. As a writer as well as a reader, I relay on the right atmosphere. It is not everything that matters, but it can win me over to invest time and attention to the work as a whole. Tell

Still crashing worlds! Or, update on the witching novel.

I am still done with letting her world crash. I mean, the first part of the witching novel, of course.My goal of telling the whole life story of a witch in central Europe in the 17th century has the challenge of including all the different stages of life. That does not just pose the difficulty

The struggle with time

„Time can bring me closer but also push me further from one thing“, I tell my witch.„Especially the one thing we are missing and yearning and feeling like we live for“, my witch agreed.„We never know.“ While writing my witching novel, I discovered a struggle with time.Or, with timing.With the time structure in my novel.It