I haven’t written since my son was born. As I’m writing this, he’s a month old. And for me, that’s a long time. I’ve also not read a single book in the same month, apart from reading him a children’s bedtime story. …

There you are; you decided to journal. Maybe you bought your first notebook because it called out to you in the store. Or perhaps you grabbed some paper you already had on hand. It doesn’t matter what you use. You can journal on everything and anything, even on scrap paper…

When I was a teenager, I knew one thing: I would be a writer. I was going to go and write books and stories. And I’ve had more ideas than I could keep up with. It felt like a never-ending well of inspiration. Everywhere I turned, I saw a story…

I posted a time-lapse on Instagram the other day of me doing my morning pages. And I immediately got a reply from someone: “You write SO much every morning?! What do you write about? I’m glad if I can write a to-do list for me and the kids.” But with…

Reflecting on lessons learned 10 years after launching — On Halloween 2010, I launched Fantasyboeken.org. Blogs were still relatively new at that point, and most people had never heard of the term ‘content platform’. But I had a vision: Fantasyboeken.org would be the #1 platform bringing together readers of both fantasy, science fiction and horror alike through reviews and…

I was sitting on the faded grey sofa, tears streaming down my face, looking at the boy who I thought was going to be the father of my kids when he said: “What if it doesn’t get any better than this? …

And why we can’t bury our head in the sand any longer. — You see the memes everywhere; don’t talk about 2020. Let’s restart the year. And let’s skip to 2021. I want to call bullshit on that. Yes, 2020 is hard. And it sucks and we can’t do all the things we want to. …

I just took a detour to I figured it out — On my shelf, there is a binder with an old A4 notebook. It’s loved and abused, and the cover falls off. It even has stickers on it with things like ‘do not enter’ and ‘prohibited’. But inside is the first book I ever wrote. I used to carry that notebook…

Fighting depression when you can’t see the stars — Fighting depression is like fighting quicksand: the harder you struggle, the worse it gets. The harder you fight, the worse the breakdowns get. The darker the world seems to become. Sometimes searching for the light is the one thing that brings out the darkness even more. I’ve become accustomed to…