First Steps...

Any starting author must find him or herself in an awkward position. Trying to paint a picture is much easier since you start with your hands, move your fingers and limbs and before you know it you have a "piece" of art.

Writing is much more challenging since it needs your full cooperation as a human being and a creative individual. Being a modern homo-sapiens-sapiens (yes, there are two sapiens in a row), you sure know how difficult life can be with all things going around; imagine that once in a while (if you want to be a published author) - you need to exclude all those "must-dos" and write things down, words that will eventually become that fantastic book that you always have dreamed about writing.

I have such a book in my head at the moment, and most if it has already poured out on paper. When I did my first draft, the novel was over 600 A4 pages, that is a lot of words, after going through the novel time and time again, the pages have decreased, and now my intention is that the book should not have more than 250 pages. It is not the pages that count, but the story and the "characters", which, in this case have been modelled after real people who have lived.