Promise

I discovered lately I cannot write when my head is too full. Many people write to empty their heads, but for me that doesn’t work. There has to be a certain space in my mind to keep ideas resonating and growing, I could not find that peace for the past few months, I am planning on writing more often from now on. I will update at least once a week, to get some rythm into it. Writing is one of those things you can only get better in when practising often enough, and weekly updates seem to be a good start.

So, as a belated new year’s resolution: every Friday you’ll see something new here. It can be in any form, in Dutch or English, it can be long or short, but it will be something. And I hope you will be critically reading and commenting. Which you will all do of course

Patience please?

See the irony. I create this blog to post my stories, my poems, my observations in life, and now I have a serious writersblock. Everything I write, does not read how I meant it.

Actually, this writersblock has been here for a while. I started creating poems at a very young age, I think the first one when I could not yet write myself. Stories followed soon after, after I’d learned how to put letters onto paper. When I was 15 years old, there was this explosion of creativity in stories and poetry (mostly fanfiction and corny love poems, but still, I wrote and not all of it was awful). This stopped around the time I went to university and started to live without my parents. Since this time there have been sudden, short burst of inspiration of three poems in one night; a few nice columns over a few weeks. But now it seems I’m not able to write anything besides grocery-lists, or university papers.

It might come back, or at least I hope so. I’ll keep trying, writing random pieces, fostering inspiring thoughts. And if I feel it’s good enough, it might appear here. So, be patient.