This session was about blurring the boundaries between fact and fiction. I took the prompt "spying on someone." Watching the neighbours became an evening entertainment. By now, she knew their sc…

The exercise of this week was to play with time, to dart in and out of the story instead of faithfully documenting it minute by minute. I took the prompt of "running late" and set the story in t…

I'm actually doing more things in London than I could have possibly done in other circumstances. London has such an amazing offer in culture and now it is all online. A has been sending me links to al…

Sometimes old you-messages fly past in front of my inner eye. This is mildly painful, because they evoke memories of the little traumas that have been lived through. If only there was a vaccination agains…

Yesterday evening I tried to log into a few online events in the art world, a roundtable discussion at a Paris museum and another one at an artist book fair. Both just bored the hell out of me. As always …

Daniel Chluba's new character is out! It was born yesterday on the Instagram Live of Bark Berlin Gallery  and is called "Finocchio". Finocchio sounds and also looks a bit like Pinocchio but …

This session we looked at creating tension and how fear can be a great driving force of a novel. I took the prompt: "Write a story from the point of view of a burglar." The fluttering leaves is …