Bart Westgeest

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 [...]

This post from 43folders.com contains a video with another interesting line of thoughts by Merlin Mann, who thinks about productivity, creativity and the caveats surrounding them. Merlin presents his ideas in a popular way, fast and often funny, but he is serious and dedicated in trying to find out the truth about his subjects. It is another [...]

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 a TED-talk mentioned in the post about nursing your creativity, I understand that they offer a way to deal with one of the major obstacles for writers.. We all know it [...]

This blog has been inactive for a while because I started (together with my wife, Daniela Lot) working on and writing for another blog: intodenmark.dk A blog that in short posts looks into Denmark, its features, population and culture. For those that wonder what it is like. We want to provide information and a way of introducing [...]

I noticed a pattern in a whirl of thoughts and finds the last days. I had just finished a story from an old book that I took from the shelves a couple of days ago. The book from 1886 is the 7th edition of the Prose of E.J. Potgieter (1808 -1875). I read the story [...]

I can’t help thinking about what it is I learn from a short internet article like this: McGill Tribune  – MINDFUNK: Journal writing for health It might be worth noticing as stated that just writing about how bad or good you feel doesn’t help much in solving issues in your life and that making a true [...]

NaNoWriMo ‘08 was a mixed pleasure for me. I had chosen a not complicated storyline with many autobiographical elements and after plotting it all into yWriter I felt pretty comfortable. In the beginning the writing progressed well but I quickly noticed that this writing 1667 words a day – no matter what quality – [...]

This year I decided to join the group of about 100.000 people that each one of them will try to write a 50.000 words novel in the month of November.  Everything is allowed as long as it is fiction-novel and every one of the 50.000 words is written in this one month.  In order [...]

http://www.literature-study-online.com/creativewriting/index.html is a useful overview of the basics of the technique of writing short stories. The 16+ articles, written by Ian Mackean, are short and to the point and form a good introduction.

Creative Commons is an organisation that provides people who want to share there works a way of doing so. When you place for example pictures on the internet it is as a general rule copyrighted by you, the owner. By adding a creative commons logo you indicated that people are welcome to use it under [...]