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!