Satire
Non-Fiction
I wrote this for a non-fiction contest. The assignment was to write about a female scientist from a certain time period. I very much enjoyed getting to know this amazing, totally badass lady called Laura Bassi. I hope you do too.
Saturday, 26 May 2018
Other
These are some of the other, random ramblings I've written. I love the written word in all its forms. How can I not write whenever I have the chance, about whatever I come across?
Audio Stories
I've turned some of my stories into audio versions. Feel free to check them out.
Rainbow Stories
The Minnie Stories
Art
These are pieces I've done. I mostly work with watercolours or graphite pencil, but one piece was done with coffee instead of ink, and then finished digitallly.
Poppy (Watercolour)
Tulip (Watercolour)
Violet (Watercolour)
Butterfly Mask (Watercolour and Ballpoint)
Fallen Giant (Watercolour)
The Wind Carries (Watercolour and Ballpoint)
Heaven Fills My Mug (Coffee and Digital Processing)
Poetry
For an occasional poet, this list is getting rather long. Maybe I need to think about this...
Haiku
I rather like writing haiku. There's something about conveying an image in a single breath that keeps fascinating me.
Tanka
Free Form
Limericks
This is something special. Sometimes, people say the most beautiful things. Damian Jay Clay, a dear friend of mine, a member of The Writers' Block and an amazing poet and poetry editor, points those things out to us by editing them and turning them into amazing, touching, funny and fabulous poems.
Here are the ones he did for me.
In het Nederlands
Tot nu toe is er nog maar één verhaal in het Nederlands online beschikbaar. Twee anderen staan klaar om hun opwachting te maken in literaire wedstrijden. Nadien zullen ook deze verhalen hun weg naar hier vinden.
Domme Hond
Een Nederlandse herwerking van A Clueless Collie, en meteen het eerste verhaal dat ik in het Nederlands uitwerkte. Wordt vervolgd. ;-)
Tiny Teaches
The Tiny Teaches series began as a way to make life easier for the editors on The Writers' Block, and has begun to take on a life of its own.
In these posts, I try to adress these matters in a way that is as non-technical as I can make them, so they're accessible to writers of all backgrounds and levels of experience.
In these posts, I try to adress these matters in a way that is as non-technical as I can make them, so they're accessible to writers of all backgrounds and levels of experience.
Finding Your Way in the Land of Babel: Writing in a Second Language
Visuals in Writing
Forget the Hot Glue Gun. Get the Scissors: On Comma Splices
That's What She Said: The Use of Dialogue Tags
Adverbs: Do You Honestly Need Them?
The Eye of the Beholder: On Different POVs in Writing
Walk a Mile in My Shoes: Writing in Limited POV
Why Does Tiny Teach? Food for Thought for Members of Critiquing Groups
Fiction
Hi, and welcome to my little library. This is the list of my stories that are available online at the moment.
When The Tables Are Turned
Motherhood
The Minnie Series
The Minnie Series are very important to me. They're a way for me to process a lot of the traumatic things I come across in my day job as a medical imaging technician.
Motherhood
The Rainbow Stories
The Rainbow Stories are something a bit different. Through these pieces, I try to give a voice to abused, neglected or abandoned animals. So far, I've written about dogs, but who knows what the future brings, right?
Dry Spell
Dry Spell is a kind of speculative, romantic comedy short story. It's sort of hard to explain. But the protagonist, Peter Muxton, is a favourite of mine. I'm still not sure he'll never return with more adventures.
Moira's Dawn
This short story was written after an image prompt. The photo in question is of a sun setting behind a line of trees, creating a lovely reflection in a little river in the foreground. I still don't know how a story as sad as Moira's ended up coming out of such a peaceful image, but I love it all the same. Since writing it, Moira's Dawn has been rewritten in a Dutch version as well but that's not available online, as I've entered it in a competition.
Hurts To Be Forgotten
This was my first trip into Sci-Fi, and I had a lot of fun writing it. Since it's first appearance on Steemit, the piece has been revised thoroughly and entered into the annual Writers of the Future competition (eeek) but I still eagerly await the results.
The Land Down the Well
This story is my interpretation of the German fairy tale Frau Holle, written in a very strict third person limited POV. It was done as an assignment in the Writers' Workout exercises we run over at The Writers' Block, and posted in six chapters. I wrote it as a haibun, which is a Japanese form combining prose and haiku. More information on that is available in one the companion posts I wrote for each episode of the story.
Legacy
This story was written for another Writers' Workout exercise, this time focusing on character arc. It currently has four incarnations: The 10 word microflash linked above, a 35 word micro flash piece that has been submitted for publication in an online magazine, and a 1300 word short story that is still in progress and will be submitted for another magazine. It's also been rewritten in Dutch, and that"s been entered in the Lowlands Literary competition.
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