There are many programs for writing and editing texts and most are good for anybody and anything. Because basically they all do one thing – [...]
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Some people argue that there are too many easy distractions in our time. That we are seduced by an bombardment of entertainment on television, the [...]
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Thomas Nydahl quotes regularly on his blog Occident from Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet. Three days ago the quote was about monotony, stating that [...]
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After reading a post by Merlin Mann on the process of starting a project (and to keep going) and after listening to Elizabeth Gilbert in [...]
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The Change It was a wish to create a frontpage on my homepage that made me decide to move the entire blog from bartwestgeest.dk/blog to bartwestgeest.dk. Now I publish the blog in the same bw.dk/blog but use WordPress.org to publish a static page under bw.dk. A new subject: Writing Tools I added a number of [...]
Continue readingMusic: Hank Williams – I saw The Light (1948) It is hard to think of a truly good reason for us humans being around, if you ask me. There are several reasons possible, but which one you choose is depending whether or not you are religious, positively minded or for example an oblivious sports fan. [...]
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I looked up the word Lucifer on Wikipedia and read a Danish page that explained me that it is the name of a roman god and that it later was used in, for example, the Bibel to describe the planet Venus. In the late middle-ages it became a synonym for the devil. The link to [...]
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This quote reminds me that writing in the first place is something you just want to do – and as such it shouldn’t be aimed directly at an audience. Liberty is available if you dare to let go of your always weary “Lizard Brain”, as Seth Godin calls it – the part that is always [...]
Continue readingI made a change in my WordPress setup two days ago that I couldn’t undo and as a result this blog didn’t show up properly. I think I made WordPress make a change in the .htaccess file. It was possible to reinstall the blog by visiting (…../blog/)wp-admin/install.php in my browser but since it wanted to [...]
Continue readingI think, honestly, that of all the things I wrote in the past, like diaries, short stories and poems, I only feel satisfied with about a handful of writings. At the moment that would be perhaps 3 poems and 3 short stories. The older works are not necessarily that bad, but I don’t want them [...]
Continue readingThere are texts on the internet that are so stupid that they irritate. Maybe we have too many voices. Many are screaming and trying to sound wise and some, probably to attract readers, abandon good sense or judgement. I wish there was a method to exclude rubbish from good things. I suppose there is only [...]
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The article “Litterære manifester for et nyt årti” in the Danish newspaper Informationen gives 9 manifestos of contemporary Danish writers containing their thoughts about literature in the new decennia that we just entered. As always the thoughts are personal and thereby very different from each other. Some don’t believe in manifestos while others write a [...]
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