Love me!

Haven't we read this many times? Have you not heard about loving each other and love yourself? Have you not heard and read about to close your eyes and stay in silence? Have you not heard to eat this and that and which food is good and bad? Have you ever wondered about when to know you can trust those helping books, those yoga session or promises of meditations lifting up your spirit?

Well, there is one book to give you a guide. One book to read and clear your mind. One book to be astonish, to smile and be afraid of when reading, while you long for more to read in the same time. One book to make you understand what does your path means and why do you live the way you do and how it comes you never reached your destiny yet. 

Yes, it's an old book and from a time where people did the same as we do today. Searching for answers, searching for peace and searching for easy ways. 

That book, very light written, but in no way boring, playing in another time and land will show you with its story how a man can change back and forth and finally understand, what he's up to and how he wants to live. 

This book tells you about a man who is giving up again a life style one after the other. A man who really tries everything to master silence, peace and to be without wish and to be therefore happy and wealthy. This man and his story shows you that you can go many ways but each way can lead to nowhere and anywhere, because it is up to you. 

This man is called Siddhartha.

Hermann Hesse has written many books but this one I recommend warmly as it is about us, you and me and the truth we still not live after. 

A spiritual book, not being spiritual like in our days, but just being a book, a story which   makes you feel the spirits nature. 

It's not a big book, nor a book with many sides. But it contains a lifetime. 

In a language which is smooth and soft, but growls into you. 

This is my second recommendation for the autumn of books.

Yes, another old writer, which is also dead but should be known still, again and again... and again.... 

Take Siddhartha home!

Love & Light

Writing my book and how spring helps me

With this very sunny february here in Berlin and the fact that I have more time as usual to do things, I started writing again. Sun makes me go out and taking walks which in that case helps me to be creative and get my ideas how and what to write. May it be my blog or the books I am working at. Thought one book was meant to finally get its way to the world outside, I had to discover that part of it became lost when I did an update and I could not save it. Writing a book is a long process and a lot of work and to do it again to save up your work is for a moment a bit depressing but who knows why this was good at the end. Rewriting something maybe brings you a better book at the end. 

But then next to this I started a couple of weeks ago to take up again my work on a thriller, which I started last year. Now I feel I will finish this little book soon and hope to find a way to bring it out to you. 

I have already written thriller but all of them went into garbage as I never was really happy with them. Then one day I understood why I liked some of the thrillers I read and why I did not feel the same with others. It seems that you must have a good fantasy and logic chills or you have to know the subject by yourself. Many thriller are also god as the writer work much like journalist before they actually write the book itself. 

But I guess above the future and fantasy books, most will have something inside from the writer itself. The rest is more or lesson, heard, read and learned. 

Yes, writing is fun and work in the same time for me and I also read a lot which in its way helped me to develop my own chills to become much better and to understand how you could make a book. 

But that does not mean you know your style as you just have to try which fits you in the end. Also you will learn much about what kind of level you want to work. Is it Rosamunde Pilcher, Jane Austen or Stephen King? Is it James Joyce or Michael Moore. Will you do -shades of gray- or getting up with your level to Hermann Hesse? 

The level does not tell you how successful you will be at the end. Much is luck and the right topic. But then writing is best when you do it from your own and just for fun, thought we all hope to make money with this but more we hope as much people will read it and LIKE it. 

The biggest fear lies in exactly that fact. Will someone like my book?

How hard it can be book after book you wanna know. Well, I have a friend, he writes more and more, becomes better and better but wonders all the time so he writes about this in his blog: http://blog.hirschi.se/ Follow him in his process as an author.

I like to follow his way as it is always interesting to see where others are going, how they survive and what they know, what I don't. I like to know where they got the ideas and where problems lies on the way. 

I get my ideas from my own experiences and looking around. As many writers the life of family and friends is stuff to write down. Sometimes. 

But most inspiring is nature for me, which also gives me much power to actually do my work. Walking around in spring is something which gives me always joy and hope and the patience to go on. 

Tulips therefore these days remind me that life is an ongoing and beauty thing. Even thought you have to get through your onionskin. Very much like writing.

LOVE & LIGHT