Have you ever stopped to consider what it is that makes someone a main character? We like to believe there must be something unmistakably extraordinary about them, something sharp and luminous enough to justify the…
If I ask you to think about creativity, I bet the first thing that will come to mind will be inspiration. A sudden spark of some sort. A lightning…
I've been writing for most of my life. And like any writer out there, I've experienced writer's block more times than I can count, especially in the early stages of my journey. Writer's block is a nasty thing, and no…
Individualism has become a kind of compass in my life. Because if I’m not myself, then who am I? A mask? A performance? A watered-down version of…
Honesty isn't about facts. It's not about factual truths, either, even though that's how we see honesty in our day-to-day life. But if you look…
Some of us know that climate change is real. Others, even though believing the same, are still rather skeptical about the idea that we, humans, are the cause of it. But the truth stays. There are constant changes in our biosphere that are affecting thousands of species every…
I have not stopped working on ‘Witch of An Unfortunate Kind,’ though I have not been posting new chapters either. Since I am handwriting this particular project, I have already written ten chapters that I have not published yet, just because I somehow could not find time and…
There is no single definition of what the world we all live in truly is about? Is it about love or is it about hate because the existence of both cannot be denied. On one side of the road can be seen a magnificent…
I am a mentally strong person with a bunch of sensitive spots in my mind as well as in my heart. And quite often (almost every day), I get into a condition when my inner peace and balance are somewhat off. To help me to get my mind back in the right watercourse and put my heart…
This post is my attempt at journaling online. And it feels different. Nevertheless, I am willing to try and since I have some things to say, I sincerely hope that this post will be something interesting to read. Let me…
First, I learned to read, and then I started learning to live, or something like that. But really, what can be more beneficial for your life than a good, wisdom-ish friend in the pocket of your jeans or bag? Especially for an introvert-minded person. Books are the best…
Who would think that staying at home can be so challenging and tough?! I’m sure, most of us dreamed of a week or better a month off work. But now when we have it, it doesn't feel as satisfying as we imagined it would…
In Daoism, life is presented as a road which we have to follow. Sounds reasonable and kind of easy, does not it? But the older I get, the less visible this road of life appears to me. It has been a week since I wrote…
I have already mentioned these two books on my Instagram, but I thought it would be great to dedicate my attention to them one more time here. Why? Because these two books have changed and are still changing the way I…
Last year, in September, I started one of the most important journeys of my life – this blog. Honestly, it reminded me a trip through a gigantic field covered from sky to ground with smoky white fog. I had no idea…
Everyone has their talents and gifts. No one is born without it. However, looking back I remember a few people that I believed to be the most talented and gifted people I had ever met. They created without meaning to…
Burnout is real! I know it after years of fighting and refusing to believe in its existence. I was a solder in the army of my creative bits that drove a stake of pain through my middle each time I was thrown under a…
Fear—it has been so hard to keep its teeth in the muzzle lately and I am not talking about fear of spiders, this kind of fear is a beast completely different in its nature. It is a fear of making a mistake that exists…
My entire life is a product of rejection. Hmm… Would it be too much to say that my spin of rejections began at early age and had been dragging my subconscious through all these years with a pompous disdain? Possibly…
Language is more than just a way of communication. It is a form of identity. It is a wire that shapes your thoughts and helps you to express yourself to the world. Language is a DNA print that gives you all the…
I love the world; this new world where my voice is promised to be heard and where my heart does not have to go through the tunnels of deceiving in order to survive the censured reality of outside world. I can finally…
If there was a conversation before the life on earth was created, I would imagine it be like that. Nothing is perfect. Fortunately! Beauty has become a target for wars of objective opinions. The lenses through which we…
It always starts as joke till someone’s feelings get hurt. I know, humor is much needed and highly appreciated thing in our society. But the problem with it is that so many people use it as a weapon of verbal attacks…
Decisions! Those are the movers to the best part of living which is action. Standard formula of making a decision is quite simple: it relies on such mental processes as reason, biases, memories, and emotions. Your past…
Science has always been my favorite kind of voice. I love the way it talks about the brain, its plasticity, its limitations and other aspects of its functioning. We all have it and we all use it, so we just have to…
We are not Hansel, nor are we Gretel but so often our lives remind the German folklore tale by the Brothers Grimm. Left with a fake promise, we wonder through the wild of the forest called life, searching for our way…
Mad world—what are you doing to the creative minds that are your only salvation? What, not dramatic enough? I think this conversation is not going to be easy for both of us but we have to talk about it anyway. No…
And I think about it all the time, are not you? Really, what word out of millions existing would be good enough to describe what happiness is? Hard to say, is not it? At the same time, the answer seems really close to being easy, trivial even, right on the plate in front of…
I’ll tell you a story: once, there was a girl that believed she could do anything. But things she did at the end of the day were not the right things and so, her greatness started slowly dissipating. Is not it what…
It is not a secret — life can be overwhelming, hard, and challenging. Each of us has their own share of bitter and sour, and ironically, this is probably one of the most normal things about life. We all have good days…
It took me a while to reflect on this idea – you can be anyone and do anything you want, but for some reasons you keep replacing doors with walls and then cry ‘how unfair life is.’ It may look like the whole world is…
Unimaginable amount of possibilities and opportunities that exist in the world can easily cloud our minds, weaken us, and strip off our inborn greatness. And clarity is the only way to avoid it. I know from personal experience how hard it can be to plan out even just a week…
Please, don’t get me wrong: this is not a note to add to the established image of a writer. This is a short blog post written by a writer without spectacles. Spectacles and hat – the main attributes for the sacred ritual of writing through writer’s block (for those who believe…
This brilliant, with its simplicity, question stands at the base of the professional journey called freelance. But how many freelancers can actually answer this question? For a long time, I was following this false…
It’s been almost five years since I first discovered freelance as a way of living for myself. For a long time, I kept definition of freelance and business separate in my mind. When I started out as a newbie in the…
Living a life in isolation does not make you a better Artist! The power of creative minds is the force that makes the Earth rotate, the Sun rise and the life on our planet evolve. But there are four basic conditions…
Have you ever seen a leafless tree in the middle of Spring? What would you think if you saw one? Poor tree, it’s probably dying – this is what I would definitely find among a flush of different thoughts in my head at…
How low is your bathtub? People come into our lives with different attitudes, different world views, different goals. As a person who is ‘lucky’ to be born with overly friendly nature, I know how painful it can be to let a wrong person inside. How at times unbearable is to see…
Have you ever met a small person? I’m not talking about size, even though for some size is what really matters. I’m talking about emotional aspect of human presence that makes some of us look like a tiny dot lost in…
Writers write, right?! But what about other things, we, writers, have to deal with daily. Starting with a very primitive task as to find in the load of these mundane responsibilities time to actually sit and spend an hour in a blissful solitude, writing. What about…
To make a written text shine you need to trust it to the hands of a knowing polisher —Editor. Exquisitely written books not just tell you a story, they speak it to you as if this very story is the echo of your own…
As I stepped in this multifaceted world of translation, the only question that kept me awake at night was ‘If my translation is CORRECT?’ Fidgeting over every word, scanning it scrupulously, checking all the possible…
I remember good days like a vague outline of the bridge which I enter on the days, dark like night sky. It affects my writing. It affects me. It affects people, I care about. And even though there is no way to dispel…
There is only one way to turn one book into many, and it is to translate. Yet, the amount of books that never get a chance to be translated is enormous. It is even more so in the world of Indie Authors and their baby…
Everyone has a view of what happiness is. Some manage to find happiness in mundane things, like taking a stroll outside in the morning; others search for happiness beyond things that can be touched, dedicating their…
It’s always been the same, like a badly written story where one human being stands against another. Some use fists to defend their truths; others are sharp of tongue. Each is reluctant to give up. But does it really matter? It’s a fact that a huge part of people living on this…
If you were an apple, there would be a need for two halves to make you whole. Well, in the case of us humans, two halves would not be enough to form your naturally multifaceted personality and complete a healthy…
Self-acceptance is not a mythical creature everyone knows about but has never really seen. It’s real. And unlike a unicorn, whose absence is not that vital for our lives, self-acceptance decides whether you’re going to…
