Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Muse, work in progress

Written by Marijke F. Jansen


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“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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To become an author has always been my dream. It's one of the first things that come to mind, when people think of me as a child. I was always creating stories and writing them down. And as the years passed by, my dream didn't fade.

At the end of the year 2011, I realised that I hadn't written for some time. I made myself a promise that 2012 would be my writing year. And it was! In January, I discovered a writing contest organised by young-adults.nl and I started to work on the novella Muze, which was written in Dutch. My novella won second place and was published with two other novellas  (by two other authors) in Dark Romance - Verboden Verlangen.

I started to dream about an English version of the story, because once translated into English, more people would be able to read the story. In January 2014 I believed that it was time to work on this translation. At the moment, I have translated the prologue and first chapter. Still eight more chapters to go!

Monday, February 3, 2014

Welcome

Written by Marijke F. Jansen

Every day, new worlds are created. They come into existence in the minds of thousands of authors all around the world. Before such a new world is born, it consists only of a single idea. By daydreaming about this idea, the author adds oceans, continents and people to this world. Their dreams can be like heaven, but they also create nightmares. Worlds that will give us a message. Of things we are doing wrong today. And after dreaming of this world, the author picks up his/her pencil (or starts up his/her laptop) and writes this story and the world it is situated in down in books. So that you, dear reader, can pick it up, open it and gain access to this world. Books are doors to dreams.

Doors 2 Dreams is a blog by three Dutch authors. Jen Minkman. Olga Hoekstra. Marijke F. Jansen. We all created new worlds. We still do. On these pages, you will find keys to doors - doors to dreams.