(Coming soon on a regular basis – today still with moving boxes on my mind... which sounds strange when you put it like that 😉 )
This new section is about writing. About publishing. About all the things that happen between inspiration and imprint.
But what happens instead
Dust. Cable clutter. Cardboard Tetris. And a move that started with “just packing a few boxes every day” and now deserves a chapter in the autobiography JC Spark The Genius ... Looks Out Over the Chaos.
So today: the first Between the Lines edition, live from the chaos. With exclusive insights into the real challenges of an author's life
- Plot twist of the month: The USB stick with the current manuscript (because, clever, then you have it “at your fingertips”) – according to moving logic, is either in the cutlery drawer or in the winter jacket pocket. In one of the jacket pockets
- Show, don't tell: The best way to describe emotions is by lifting a moving box that looks light. Spoiler: It was porcelain. And anyway, why do people think they can “tell” how heavy a box is just by looking at it?
- Kill your darlings: ...apparently also applies to books that just don't fit on the new shelf and need to find a new home
- Cliffhanger: The router is set up. The internet... is still thinking about it.
- Foreshadowing at its finest: The box labeled “urgent” is at the very back. Under everything. As always. Maybe we should have written “tools” on it?
- Character development live: I am now someone who seriously contemplates minimalism while surrounded by tea lights and USB cables.
- Subplot escalation: The plant that survived the last move has now declared world domination, at least over the windowsill.
- Worldbuilding: Who needs fictional worlds when you're trying to build a functioning living room out of 42 boards?
- The common thread: It's there. Somewhere. But where's the extension cord?
- Profound dialogue: “Where's that thing?” – “What thing?” – “The one that goes with the other parts!” “What parts?” “Three, I think!” “Three of the thing or the parts it goes with?” – (Silence. Laughter. Search for another thing)
- Motivation: “I'll tidy that up later, it makes more sense” is now a way of life.
- Symbolism: A crumpled note containing exactly the scene I've been working on for three weeks. In the soup bowl.
- Plot device: A single sock, completely out of place, but with clear leading role energy.
Starting with the next issue, Zwischen den Zeilen will take a serious, but not humorless, look at writing—that is, at what you really don't see when you only know the finished books.
Until then: keep packing. Packing, moving things around, repacking, dismantling, handing out band-aids, measuring, sawing, cursing, re-measuring... and then doing it all again in reverse order soon. And hope that at least the coffee cups turn up again, which strangely enough are neither in the old apartment nor the new house.
You'd think that after 24 moves, you'd be used to something like that – but that's only true to a limited extent. 😉
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