In 2002 I interviewed my parents about their experiences during WWII. They’d been kids, then youths in the post-war era, had met and fallen in love. But that’s not what I want to talk about here, I want to tell you about the first time I realized I loved writing. After that three-week task of …
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Last weekend I had the pleasure of participating in the fifth Literary Hike in the beautiful Vorwerk Park in Wuppertal. Under cloudy but dry skies eight authors and their roughly twenty guests walked and enjoyed beautiful settings together. At various picturesque sites throughout the park authors presented stories and poems. Since the German translation of …
For those of you who are living nearby in Solingen, Germany, I’m teaching another workshop at the VHS. When: November 16 from 4 – 5:30 pm and November 17 from 10 am – 2:30 pm Where: VHS Solingen, Mummstr. What: How to write a first chapter that readers won’t put down Writing a novel is …
