Writers, writings and a herb

[oakfarm]

 Someone said that you when writing could take one third of your story from real life, one third from literatur you have read and one third from your fantasy. I am sure it is a good advice. It also looks simple, just take random things in your head and put it together. Turns out that it isn't.  The thing is to know what parts you should use, just because something has happened IRL doesn't mean it could be used. One example. One person in my novel project was slightly based on A. A was a girl that like one and a half decade ago, when I was 20,  approached me at a party and started to talk to me. Then we didn’t see each other for some time. However two or three years later me and her was in the same school and again she approached me, but claimed she didn’t remembered me. Add some details and we get when I was young, I apparently was the type of this one girl. Something else that’s apparently is that I’m still proud of that and I wanted to use the story in my novel. See I even write it down here.

Not mentioning that it could be unfair to her to base a character on her (writers do that all the but it’s another story). To write something down "just because it really happened" doesn’t mean it fit a story or even that it’s believably. Maybe this entry does not adding and maybe it’s too long. All I’m saying is that the “1/3 from literature, 1/3 from your own life and 1/3 from fantasy” suggestion, sounds easy, but doesn’t have to be.

Should I write something else about writing? I have know two persons who have had books published. Both complained that their books didn’t sell. One actually is a guy who now work at my old work. I was hoping his novels should be translated to English so I could brag about it for my international friends. The problem is that he say he sells around one book a week. He is doing his authorship "the old fashion way". He’s published on a big publish house, he has been on TV and he's been hold lectures about his books but they do not sell. Since they do not sell I guess I not going to be in the situation I can brag about having meet him for my international friends.

His two novels are not bad and I feel like writing a short presentation, so here it is. They both take place in North Sweden, the first novel take place in the 17-century with nomads, settlers and Germans who looks for ore. I also like his research on the subject, like when he use a north Sami word for the herb angelica (Angelica archangelica). 

   The second book take place in a near future, when Sweden have build a wall against Finland to stop Finnish refugees. Whatever a wall make you think of the story is not inspired by Trump. It’s a comment to the refugees situation on the Mediterranean sea, but he changed it from the Mediterranean sea to the Baltic sea.