Writing In Freefall?

    The Legend NASA invested millions of dollars developing a ball-point pen that would work in micro-gravity. The ink flows only if there is sufficient gravity pulling it towards the tip. To test this, try writing on your ceiling and see how many pages of "War and Peace" you manage. The Russians solved this …

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136 days – how was it for you?

Here we are, day 136 of 2013 (that's 37% of the year gone). And how is everyone getting along? So far, it's been a good year for me, creatively... TWO Liebster awards runner-up in a LinkedIn microfiction contest (on a writers' vote) my short story, "Conservation", accepted for publication spent a few, happy weeks on a movie …

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Authoring’s easy. Really. See how!

If only more first time authors had consulted a sensible teddy bear at an early stage... Credit : David Kazzie http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=c9fc-crEFDw

Liebster Blog Award(s)

(Not the Oscars... but very, very close! Prepare for an acceptance speech!) I stand here today, honored to receive not one, but TWO, Liebster Blog Award Nominations! "What is this award?", you ask? The Liebster Blog Award is given to up-and-coming bloggers who have less than 200 followers. “Liebster” is German for “favorite”. Hence this award …

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Time To Get Moving?

Happy Day 27 ! Yes, the end of January looms - almost 1/14th of 2013 already gone, and what have you done so far? This means that there are, at time of writing, only 338 days left until next Christmas. (Yay!) And those are "real" days, not shopping days! So if you have not yet started that …

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Winter Wonderland

I just had to share this photo of Luxembourg town center (photo by Mara Muniz)

Season’s Greetings

“Maybe Christmas,” he thought, “doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas … perhaps … means a little bit more.” Dr. Seuss, from How The Grinch Stole Christmas. Have a good year end festival  and try to see beyond the glitter!

Nowt wrong with a bit of ginger……

Something Seasonal - even a guy can manage to bake these!