Yosephyne

 I JUST WON NANOWRIMO! :D You guys, I JUST WON NANOWRIMO! :DD For real. I never thought I could do this, but it turned out to be at least a little bit easier than I thought it would. I mean, I’ve only got half the story so far (or even less), so how much of an achievement this is is debatable, but I know one thing for sure: I’ve never written this much for one story in my entire life. Someone be proud of me! THE WHOLE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THIS!    

I spent two weeks working at a newspaper agency in Southern Germany, going to interviews and writing articles. It was a working experience and very, very, very stressful and difficult for me because it was a constant battle against my crippling shyness and social anxiety. I learned a lot in these two weeks and I didn't once run away from any challenge I had to face. When I came home last weekend bursting with pride over my achievements and feeling confident and optimistic about everything, suddenly my mum started crying and told me my beloved cat had been run over by a car while I was away. And suddenly, everything I had done in the past tw

I've just spent hours and hours creating a fictional family tree for my original story. At some point during the process, I looked up and thought: "This is ridiculous, why am I doing this? Is it really necessary?" But I think it is, or at least, it's quite helpful for keeping my thoughts in order. It's funny, I rarely feel that the elements of my story are made up specifically by me for the purpose of entertaining myself. It's more like they just occur to me, as if I was realizing something that was there all along, I just couldn't see it until this moment. Stephen King once compared creating a story to excavating a fossil - you're not