I've spent most of today looking at paintings on the internet. I search for random painters and see what I can find. It's a thing I do when I don't know what comes next. And so today I discovered Zdzisław Beksiński. A polish painter who was murdered in the year 2005. He died as he painted (so to speak). He was quie the painter and right up my alley ( Read more... )

I am having a severe case of writers block (isn't it ironic how I seem only to approach this diary when I'm in trouble?!). It's bad this time, because I know what to write I just can't write it. It's as if the word aren't there.. well that's not it really. I tend to think that when I can't write what I've planned to - it's the wrong idea I'm ( Read more... )

I had the perfect start for chapter 15 all lined up last night as I was trying to fall asleep listening to The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. What a frustrating book. I just want some supermonster from a Clive Barker to jump up and eat away the irritating characters in The Fountainhead.

I was thinking about some old things that I can't quite remember. ( Read more... )

Chapter 13 finished with a lot of help from this picture:


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And the show must go on. 
slowly it does. 
I'm feeding myself with books and inspiring thoughts. Doing silly things to keep me inspired. Silly as in this dreadful drawing:


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Today I finished revising old stuff. Tomorrow I will re-start the fun, hard part.
I wonder if it's any good! I hope so. Sometimes I even believe so. Otherwise I'm wasting my time. And others...

I guess time will tell.

It's been hard to start again after the easter vacation. I did write during the vacation but not on my novel. I lay it to rest. I don't know if that's generally a good idea but I didn't have much of a choice. It's harder to work on that with people around than it is to scribble down ideas, short comments and loose sentences ( Read more... )

I've been soaking up interviews with other writers. Today I got two new impressions. One was from a television interview I saw with a Norwegian writer Karin Fossum. She spoke of her new book "Brott" which was coming out in Sweden and she spoke a little of her routine. What stuck with me was that she said she hadn't written for 14 years. She had ( Read more... )

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I wrote this yesterday. I was having a really lousy writing day and decided it was time to get out of my normal thinking paths and pursue something else. This morning I read it over and decided it was time to publish something. All comments are well seen! In my defense this story has had a very short thinking process. I hope you enjoy it none the ( Read more... )