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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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  • Prison of Perfection

    Perfectionism is a prison Competition is a cage Reflection often ends in rage and weeping in wisdom. Embrace your perfect imperfections and compete with yourself to leave the cage, reflect upon your rage until you weep and become wise. Wisdom reflects upon the competition with perfection after the rage turned against the cage that once…

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  • Rosie’s Relief or Off her Chest

    Get out of my head! Sometimes she has to write you off her chest. Off her mind. Sometimes she needs to dance away into the distance. And sometimes she succeeds in getting you off her mind. For a while. But no matter how much she’s writing, or how wild she’s dancing, she never gets you…

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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: 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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  • #sundaystory: Light at the End of the Tunnel

    The information given was: a) English b) Light at the end of the tunnel c) hope, end, tired d) sarcastic dedicated to Mathias Work is done. I’m hitting the road with my car. Rush hour. Traffic. I’m tired, I’m stressed, I’m exhausted. Red lights in front of me. On the other lane white and yellow…

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  • #tbt: Quoteworthy

    Throwback Thursday to when I was quoted. With a little addition to the original at the end. You know, since I was 14 or so, I’ve been collecting. Everybody was collecting something back in those days. Be it little porcelain animals, candles, dried flowers, whatever it was, everybody had another obsession for collecting one thing…

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  • FAQ Friday: About autobiographical reference

    Dieser Beitrag ist auch auf Deutsch verfügbar Photo & Editing: GOTOX, 2011 I admit, it’s not always easy to separate the author from the work. How often did I have to read novels or short stories for my literature studies and was wondering what the heck the author had for breakfast to produce something like…

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  • #sundaystory: Sparrow

    The first sundaystory I’ve written in October 2014, hope you like it. The information given was: a) English b) Sparrow c) church, beer, Frankenstein d) dramatic dedicated to Tammy Frank sat in his office organizing the upcoming appointments when his secretary Susie entered to bring him coffee. “Thanks, Susie. So, what’s the plan for today?”…

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  • How to stay creative Tipp #3

    Dieser Beitrag ist auch auf Deutsch verfügbar Keep your workplace tidy! Sounds logical, is logical. Sometimes you can have so much chaos in your head, and then it helps to restore the outward order and then dedicate yourself to putting order into the internal chaos. I also heard people saying that they don’t mind when…

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  • Sneak Peek into Labelled Love: Kiss me, Jonny!

    This story was written before I had collected all the stories for my book, even before I started structuring and writing the book. But the moment it was ready I knew it had to become part of it. And so it is now a chapter that you can find in Labelled Love. You can still…

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  • Ruhr Valley Love

    Dieser Beitrag ist auch auf Deutsch verfügbar I promised a friend of mine to publish this poem after having relaunched my blog. The background story: She moved away to work in another city. This poem was a farewell gift, so that she wouldn’t forget us. It is still hanging on the wall in her living…

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