Welcome to the wondrous world of my imagination

Welcome, stranger! You’ve reached a wondrous place: from this point, you can take a look inside my mind. For me, it has always been a mesmerizing place, full of stories, color, images, emotions and crazy trains of thought. I hope to share some of it with you, and in return catch a glimpse of what is going on inside your mind.

Probably the thing I like best about my mind is the continuous stream of stories that run through it, vivid as movies. I very much enjoy the adventures of all my imaginary friends and I’ve been putting them to paper as soon as I learned how to hold a pen. It’s all fiction, inspired by my own experiences or my dreams, often flirting with magic and worlds other than our own.

Since making a decent living out of your imagination is reserved to just the lucky few, I chose to pursue a regular non-descript career and let my imagination run free in my spare time. So far, I’ve kept my creations largely to myself and only occasionally shared something with the usual suspects, such as my parents.

Obviously, they were heavily impressed, as is their job. Obviously, my very active imagination has many times played out the scenario in which I am discovered as the next Joanne Rowling. Despite the unwavering support of my family and these fantasies however, sharing my work with the world has always made me a little nervous. Writing is something so personal, so vulnerable and close to myself – what if people don’t like it? What if they think it’s a silly hobby? So, in light of facing my fears and trying new things: here’s my first brave little step into the world, in the relative safety of a platform where no one knows me yet.

(By the way, I’d love to hear about your experiences with posting your writing online. How did people respond? Was it what you expected? Any tips and tricks?)

Although I never tried to turn writing into a career, my fascination with the mind did motivate me to study psychology (and afterwards find a completely unrelated job, but that is beside the point). I love analyzing what goes on in my own mind, and trying to figure out what goes on in others’. So besides posting my stories here, I would also like to share some of my observations and analyses.

So far, I've only managed to read other people’s stories and be inspired. I was hoping to join some of the contests I’ve seen, but I haven’t managed yet – I’m a rather slow writer, I like to chew on my words and mold and polish my stories to perfection. Even this introduction took me longer than it takes some people to write entire chapters, it seems. And slowing me down even further is my ambition to accompany each post with my own drawings (so far, so good). But we’ll see, hopefully being among creative minds will give my productivity a boost.

I hope you like what you find here :) Constructive feedback is always appreciated. And as English is not my first language, any tips concerning grammar, style or vocabulary are most welcome.