– Rucha Bhawkar. Dear Rucha it would be easier to list what hasn’t changed since I started out, more than thirty years ago. Just thinking about it makes me feel so old! I don’t want…Continue Reading: «How is it different when you began writing, and today?»
"Look over my shoulder"
You’re welcome to look over my shoulder! An unfiltered glimpse inside my writing process, my work, my life.
«Is it really the writer’s imagination or…
…the experience that counts when you want to write?» – Sethulakshmi Oh, dear Sethulakshmi! I feel like I am answering every single question with «both». But it’s true, it’s both. But even «both» is not…Continue Reading: «Is it really the writer’s imagination or…
«Does happiness lie in living for ourselves?»
«Or giving happiness to others and not being contended by everything in our lives?» – Ena. Oh, Ena! That is such a good question. If I think about it, it is the central question that…Continue Reading: «Does happiness lie in living for ourselves?»
«Homeland and mother tongue have become very fluid terms …
… in the recent past. How do you look at your own situation, a Swiss author living in and writing from America?» – Dr Swati Acharaya, Pune. Thank you for this question, Dr Acharaya. It…Continue Reading: «Homeland and mother tongue have become very fluid terms …
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The Happy-Couples-Cure for Heartbreak.
Why would you do that to yourself? Why seek out happy couples – couples that seem happy to you at least – after a painful divorce? Not many of my friends understood. I was not…Continue Reading: The Happy-Couples-Cure for Heartbreak.
The Impostor’s School of Writing, part 2
Here I was, 21 years old, on a train ride from Paris to Munich where my father was dying in a huge hospital. I distracted myself by writing – the novel I had started on…Continue Reading: The Impostor’s School of Writing, part 2
The Impostor’s School of Writing – Part 1
I was 21 and living in Paris when I first started telling people that I was a writer. Until then I had never said it out loud. Somehow I had met a group of aspiring…Continue Reading: The Impostor’s School of Writing – Part 1