Category: creativity

  • #writerswednesday: Tips for Creativity & Inspiration

    #writerswednesday: Tips for Creativity & Inspiration

    As there are many creatives out there in different fields, be it photography, film making, writing, singing, acting, modelling, dancing, painting, whatever, I realised that often they are confronted with the same or similar problems. Some of them being in the direction of the following: * I’m not in the mood, I don’t know where…

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  • Reclamation – A poem in episodes

    Reclamation – A poem in episodes

    The special series I announced on my blogwarming party Don’t label my body As if you had the right to Cause you don’t Don’t try to narrate my story As if you had the right to Cause you don’t Don’t bathe in my glory As if you had the right to Cause you don’t This…

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  • Blogwarming Party

    Hier Beitrag auf Deutsch lesen Welcome! Grab a drink, take a seat or join me on the dance floor and let’s celebrate together. The sofa is already there, decoration is not yet complete, table and chairs are ordered but not yet delivered, so take some cushions and make yourself comfortable in my place of creativity,…

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  • My Catalyst for Creative Impulses

    My dears, It’s already been a while since I’ve been blogging. But I’m on it, working on it. But here’s something, I wanted to invite you to: Follow me on Instagram! Why? Because, you know, sometimes, when it’s just too busy a time to sit down and write a blog post (including obsessive paranoia about…

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  • Creating Controversial Content

    Photo & Editing: Dave Greensmith, 2012 Controversial content can raise awareness, right? Often it does. A “Fuck” in the title is almost a guarantee for clicks and reads, isn’t it? And when you utter a controversial sentence, you can assume that a huge discussion will break loose, right? Controversies polarise and that’s why they often…

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  • Dear Brother

    #tbt: I once submitted this one to a flash fiction competition with the given topic of “a lie”. Unfortunately, I didn’t win, but I hope you like it. 🙂 Dear Brother, Probably you’re going to call me a liar, as everyone else does in our neat and narrow-minded neighbourhood. But you’re old enough now. Happy…

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  • Mirror Madness

    Dieser Beitrag ist auch auf Deutsch verfügbar Photo & Editing: Ralph Wietek Fitting to the upcoming Halloween, here something uncanny 😉 Mirror Madness The uncanny. The unfamiliar. Something that doesn’t feel familiar, not like home anymore. The other. And yet it is in my home. Should normally be an image of myself and not of…

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  • Enough

    #tbt: Enough! Nobody ever thought that she’d leave them. But she left them all. They fought too much or not enough. Why she left them? Because they didn’t have the right perception of her. And she couldn’t convince them to change their view. Is it now her fault because she was incapable to show them…

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  • Book Recommendation: The Book Thief

    As I have honoured Markus Zusak’s work in my latest #sundaystory, I’d now like to give a ‘real’ recommendation for this book. Attention! There might be some spoilers. But this is going to be more of a personal story about this book. So, let’s start at the beginning. As you might know by now, I…

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  • Taking a shower

    Dieser Beitrag ist auch auf Deutsch verfügbar Photo & Edtiing: GOTOX, 2011 Today a result from a writing exercise I had to do in one of my courses. Basically the exercise was this: Normally you handle adjectives and comparisons carefully, just like stereotypes, but this time, think about something that you did today and try…

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  • Sneak Peek into Labelled Love: A Borrowed Life

    Today another little sneak peek into my book Labelled Love. Photo & Editing: Ralph Wietek A Borrowed Life Have you ever seen a musician playing their instrument? Say, a violinist playing so passionately that not only the music itself, but his facial expression and the passion expressed through his body moves you, touches you? Well,…

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  • How to stay creative Tipp #2

    Dieser Beitrag ist auch auf Deutsch verfügbar Sit down in a café and observe the surrounding and the people! I don’t necessarily mean meet your friends in a café, but I mean, really take a little time for yourself and sit down in a café on your own, order your favourite drink and maybe a…

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  • #tbt: Winchester – Now and Then –

    Dieser Eintrag ist auch auf Deutsch verfügbar #tbt: November 2014 Two years ago I’ve spent a semester abroad in England. In Winchester to be precise. Before coming to the main topic, the short comeback to Winchester this year, I think I have to take a detour and start from the beginning. 3 months England. 3…

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  • #tbt: Commitment and Confession

    #tbt; a poem from 2013 We say it too often, we say it too less we often commit, but never confess, we think it right, but discover it wrong, we’re fragile, but we pretend we’re strong and strong we are indeed but too proud to say when we’re in need, too shy, too insecure, waiting…

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