Tuesday 8 March 2011

My favourite writing spot

I've been working as a freelance writer for more than six years now and in my opinion the two biggest advantages this job comes with are that
1) no matter how boring the topic I have to write about I am at least *writing* which is something that in general I enjoy (as you might have guessed) and
2) when the afternoon is as nice as it was today I am free to postpone all working activities to the evening and enjoy an afternoon out in the sun - in my case on the WIG, which stands for "Wiener Internationale Gartenschau" (Viennese International Garden Fair) and is not so much a fair as it is a kind of huge park with small lakes, all kinds of themed (natural) environments, a little petting zoo and a picknick meadow. It's also called "Kurpark Oberlaa".

That's the opposite shore of "my" lake from where I usually sit.
You can see my spot on the left side if you look closely.
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Since I am as fortunate as to having my own car it's only ten minutes away from where I live and it's like my personal refuge whenever I feel a bit too stressed out.
There's a great spot around the biggest lake where you can sit pretty much shielded from view and I love to go there, write or just think for a while and that was also what I did today. It's still pretty cold outside so it wasn't really warm, but it was sunny and I enjoyed it a lot. I had a short walk around and then wrote for about an hour, doing some concepting for my current main project, which in absence of a better title I'll for now and henceforth call "book-wip".

I'm always working on several things at the same time but like I said "book-wip" is my main project and it's also pretty progressed already. But I'll tell you about that another time.
Hope you get to enjoy the first spring days as well!

So long,
Sabine

Sunday 6 March 2011

The Beginning

So this is the start of my blog.
To be honest, I'm not quite sure yet what exactly you'll get to read here.
All I know is that it'll be about the things I write but I've never been one to plan a lot but rather make things up as I go, so that's also what's gonna happen here.

Anyway, hope you'll like it and enjoy reading!

So long,
Sabine