HeyJared(Aspiring) Starving Author
One confused twenty-something. One childhood dream of becoming an author. What could go wrong?
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A Nook of One’s Own (opens the original)
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My first apartment was a 29 m2 furnished studio in Utrecht. I was studying linguistics at the time and made about €60 a week on the side, which is why I ended up in a converted office building that was seen as one “house” because of some legal loopholes, but consisted of over 100 studios filled with students and some questionable characters here and there. I couldn’t care less though. I finally had a place of my own and it didn’t matter that my couch and tv were in the kitchen that also happened
Where did Dutch folklore go? (opens the original)
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Weerwater: A Masterclass in Dutch dystopian fiction (opens the original)
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"Would you like to write stories?" (opens the original)
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The Death of Dutch Speculative Fiction (opens the original)
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