Yesterday I did not finish and publish a story
Why should you care? Yes, why should you? You don’t read my stuff anyway. Not yet, I hope. But not now. I recently formulated my plan for expeditious fiction. According to this plan I start and finish...
View ArticleToday I wrote and published the story Tearing up Chocolate
Today I wrote and published the story Tearing up Chocolate. This is number 1 in the Expeditious Fiction series. I started this piece of expeditious fiction this morning with nothing, except a title....
View ArticleA New Year of Writing
In just under a month I am turning 46. Almost 6 years ago I committed myself to pursue a lifelong ideal of becoming a writer. I think I have now paid my dues and can move slightly beyond being dismally...
View ArticleWriting with Mother Tongue
It is most likely that most of my readers will pick up more grammar and spelling and language issues in my stories than I do. That is one of the drawbacks of writing in your second language. I’m sorry...
View ArticleTall Tales coming soon
My first story collection will be called TALL TALES. I am putting it together from seven short stories. Two written in the last month and the other five written over the last two to three years. It...
View ArticleWhat are you reading at the moment?
Which is not a question you should ask me. Because at any given moment I could be reading anything up to a couple of different things at the same time. Not that I am snaking my arms out like the...
View ArticleIdeas
Is it important to have ideas? And if it is, is it possible to have any new ideas? If I sit by myself and think about things are my thinking ideas? I may be remembering things that happened just now or...
View ArticleSnapshot: wooden gate thingy
This is a wooden gate thing on a farm. We are here for a wedding. No connection between the wooden gate thingy and the nuptials. About Gerhi FeurenAs a writer Gerhi Feuren is unknown to millions of...
View ArticleSnapshot: swing two three
What will tyre you out more than one swing? About Gerhi FeurenAs a writer Gerhi Feuren is unknown to millions of people across China and large parts of Russia, Alaska and Turtle Island. Gerhi Feuren...
View ArticleSnapshot: other side of the vault
Icy windy other side, warm and snuggly this side, vault in the middle. About Gerhi FeurenAs a writer Gerhi Feuren is unknown to millions of people across China and large parts of Russia, Alaska and...
View ArticleSpoilt for Choice
I wrote the piece below more than a year ago on the 5th of November 2012. Then I dropped it a draft folder and forgot about it. Now I am posting it because I kind of like it. What do you think of it?...
View ArticleSnapshot becoming: not sure what yet, but still becoming
With tools so cool I should be doing something better. Though I am not entirely sure what. Maybe I should just play and see what happens. Tools used: IPad mini farm in the Western Cape Camera app...
View ArticleI am rereading Piers
A while ago, I think it was in 2011, I wrote a short essay about Piers Anthony. Maybe not so much about him as about the impact he had on me as a writer. I don’t have access to the essay now because...
View ArticleIf you want to buy a story in eBook form, what do you buy?
I’ve sent my mother in law one of my stories in PDF format. The only one I have in PDF format in the moment. Grizzle & Bone. Now she is telling her friends about it and there is hope that some of...
View ArticleWhy would you think of buying a MOBI book?
That is exactly the question you would have if you do not know what a MOBI file is, right? Okay, it goes like this. If you have a Kindle reader and you buy Kindle books from Amazon’s Kindle store, then...
View ArticleBeautiful Ideas
Just before I started writing this I updated my Blog to reflect the new 2014 WordPress theme. And I am using this as an intro into what I want to say about Beautiful Ideas, but not yet, so bear with...
View ArticleSome Creative Exercises
Whenever I’ve done a workshop on creativity or on anything to do with creative thinking the same thing always comes up. And when I say do I mean taken a workshop, not presenting it. At some point...
View ArticleRelative Judgement
How do you decide if something is beautiful? How do you decide if something is creative or innovative? Are you making a snap judgement based only on your own experiences? A judgement on innovation on...
View ArticlePlacing Some Limits on the Subject Matter
I have set out on a series of blog posts where I want to explore the relationship between aesthetics, creativity and innovation. However, this is a vast field in itself and very difficult to encompass....
View ArticleRe-Publication in February 2014
I first published a selection of stories in 2012. Nothing seem to have happened in 2013 from a publishing perspective. But I did write a number of stories. Now I am working on a process of...
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