If you don’t know where you want to go, then it doesn’t matter which path you take

“Novelists sit cloistered in their rooms, intently fiddling with words, batting around one possibility after another. They may scratch their heads an entire day to improve the quality of a single line by a tiny bit. No one applauds, or says ‘Well done,’ or pats them on the back. Sitting there alone, they look over what they’ve accomplished and quietly nod to themselves. It may be that later, when the novel comes out, not a

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The thing that I dreamt of as a little boy

Are you supposed to have dreams at 36? Isn’t that for children? Wasn’t that supposed to be killed in primary school where they teach you what you should do and how you should do it? What about us who don’t fit into that mold and who still think that this world has more to offer than show up at work, show up at home, get paid once a month, repeat? We don’t belong to the

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How a trip to an ancient city helped me stop complaining

When I look at some of the older videos on this channel, I can notice that I was complaining a lot. I didn’t like my job; I didn’t like pandemic measures; I didn’t like China; I didn’t like the weather, the traffic, the noise, my income, my gear, my YT videos, my writing… I liked nothing at all, and I used my camera to complain about it all. But, that wasn’t the end. I used

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The Usual Trouble of a Writer

Working on long-term projects, such as writing a novel, means that the writer will not receive any feedback for a long time. For months, and sometimes years, the writer sits in front of her computer filling in the blank pages and has no idea if what she is doing any good and if it is worth the effort at all. The writer enters the project with a blind hope like entering a maze and hopes

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To Blog or not to Blog

The only thing more stupid than writing about writing is writing a blog about writing a blog, but sometimes I have to do that too. I have been writing this blog for over a year now, i started it in English, and since recently I have been writing in both English and Serbian at the same time. There are nearly 250 articles on the English version of the blog, while there are just over 100

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