Tag: writers block

Ideas that just take their time

caro geelen author in 2000s

See that picture? That's me in 2000. With the long hair up in a ponytail (that hasn't changed) and the bedroom wall positively covered with posters of movies and movie stars (Joseph Fiennes was the man of the moment I can see) and the grim look that says taking selfies with an actual camera is hard. This is also the year I had an idea. Or at least, I think I had the idea then. My notes from then are completely lost, which is a shame. I've transferred ideas from paper to paper, from note to note. At university I...

Continue Reading →

Finding time to write

Sometimes I know what a book is going to do before I start. Sometimes I just start a book hoping it will write itself, and often it does. The book I'm on at the moment I have always vaguely known where it was going, it's just trying to get the characters there seems to be a hard one. This one grew organically. I started with a specific image in my mind and wrote that down. The characters came easily, and the first part of the story grew without me really trying. Then I got to a point where I figured...

Continue Reading →