Jürgen Hubert on Nostr: #WritersCoffeeClub 10. How do you plan and research your stories? First, I read old ...
#WritersCoffeeClub 10. How do you plan and research your stories?
First, I read old German folk tale collections during my lunches at home. If I come across any interesting tales suitable for translation, I sort them into an increasingly large number of Trello boards - there are many thousands of tales in these boards by now.
Then I pick a theme for the translations in an upcoming month, and pick stories based on that theme.
Tales which are appropriate for the theme of a book I am planning get priority. And when I have translated 100 tales focusing on a particular theme - "ghosts", "the Devil", "magic", "Venetians" or whatever - that's when I can start to assemble my next manuscript...
First, I read old German folk tale collections during my lunches at home. If I come across any interesting tales suitable for translation, I sort them into an increasingly large number of Trello boards - there are many thousands of tales in these boards by now.
Then I pick a theme for the translations in an upcoming month, and pick stories based on that theme.
Tales which are appropriate for the theme of a book I am planning get priority. And when I have translated 100 tales focusing on a particular theme - "ghosts", "the Devil", "magic", "Venetians" or whatever - that's when I can start to assemble my next manuscript...