FIRST POST!
How difficult can it be to start...? Yes it can be, until you start.
The art of writing
After the writing course in the fall of 2022 my head continued to be in writing mode. This does not mean that I am constantly walking around with a pencil in my hand since then. Yes, off and on I write down my dreams. But somewhere parallel to daily life I keep wandering around in the story I started to tell. Meanwhile I read and read, greedily, voraciously. Not only literature. The stacks of how-to books are piling up. When I look at myself I see myself endlessly walking around the kitchen table. All the while building gigantic thresholds and barricades and making funny detours in all kind of crazy directions like starting to learn Ukrainian. Just to avoid to begin, to sit down and get going.
I always wanted to be a writer. I became a visual artist. And now I will make a start to become both.
Hereby I make a pledge to write a story, a dream, a snippet of thought, a poem, or just some loose ends every week. I will post them every Thursday night from now on. This is me, beginning.
This is me
I made this image this afternoon. Happy to be here. Later I will tell you more about myself. For now here’s what’s important. My name is Lies [short for Elisabeth] van den Berg. I am Dutch and live in Utrecht, The Netherlands. I have a husband, two sons, two daughters-in-law, five grandchildren, relatives and friends. I am an artist who is in love with ‘making’. I am 77 years old, so there’s a mountain of stuff of mine around. For now I will leave it like that. I am not totally ready yet to start my autobiography, but I will be getting there.
I hope there will be some people around who can help a beginner find her feet. So please, feel free to subscribe to my weekly installment and/or leave a comment. Thank you, until next week!