As a beginner, or even sometimes as an experience author, you might be unsure on how to approach a new project. At those times, it’s usually a good idea to get back to the basics. There are several options to refresh and brush up your writing skills. You could go to your favourite author’s blog and check out her advice for starting out, or join the National Novel Writing
Being of the digital generation scrapbooking goes beyond arranging pictures, art work and comments on the pages of an album. Next to high resolution photos, my travel and life experiences are also captured on HD film. Each holiday has its own travel mix stored away on my mp3 player, melodies and catchy tunes tightly tied into my memories. To capture the whole experience
Time to make a contribution to the Wheel of Writing, too! Vivienne has asked me to talk about corpora - a tool for writers, language learners and certainly those who want to explore language and its many facets. The word corpus derives from Latin meaning 'body'. Quite simply, a corpus is a collection of texts of written or spoken language. They
Have you ever felt like the scene you were reading was practically jumping off the page? I did, especially when the text passages invoked a string of images in my mind which set the atmosphere and make the character or scene more colourful, more realistic, more tangible. A lot of that vividness is achieved by a careful choice of words which introduce an underlying theme
Today I want to talk about a film which I have seen recently and which has touched me deeply. I am talking about BARAKA by Ron Fricke, which was released in 1992. Baraka is a non-verbal film, so totally dialogue-free. Additionally, it doesn't have any actors, a plot, or a script. The focus is on the images and the music. Filmed
2011 is slowly coming to an end and we would like to take this opportunity to wish our blog readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We know that some of you might not celebrate Christmas, but we want to wish you a wonderful time, too, because we just cannot let this time of year go unnoticed ;) Appropriate to the occasion Judith included a small clip,
Last Friday I caught my first night train bound for Dresden. After 8 ½ hours in a cell-like waggon cabin and very little sleep, my family and I arrived bleary-eyed at the Dresden Main Station. Catching a tram, we rather quickly located our hotel, dumped our luggage, indulged in a cup of black milk coffee and were ready to start exploring just as the lazy winter sun peaked
