What I will be doing next…
People keep asking me what I will be doing now when I’ve come back from England, where I’m going to live, so I thought I’d share a couple of thoughts on that.
First of all, where I’m going to live, in the long run, I’ve got absolutely no idea. But for now I’ll stay put in Solör for another couple of months, at least. The flat in my parents’ basement is a quite nice flat, and the rent that we’ve agreed upon isn’t that expensive compared to other places, so I don’t see why I should be heading out searching for something else before I know where I want to live.
And I guess where I’m going to live depends a bit on what I’ll be doing. I am really curious to see what happens with my novel, and keeping my fingers crossed and hoping that even if I don’t win the competition, that the publisher might still want “The Battle” and the other books of the Viking series that I’ve promised to write. So if I end up being a full time writer this means that I can pretty much live anywhere I want. If that doesn’t happen it probably means that I will eventually start to work in a more regular job again, but as I’ve still got about 1 ½ year left on my redundancy, I don’t think I want to start working again till early next year. I still want to spend some time, full time, working on my writing.
My immediate plans for WHAT I’ll be doing next though are…
First of all I’ll have to finish my final dissertation for the MA. I need to rewrite parts of the 16000 words of my novel that I’m handing in as “the piece”, and I need to finish the 4000 words commentary on the piece. But I need to do some more research before I do this. As the story is set in the Viking Age in the area around Trondheim in mid Norway, there are basically two things I need to do pretty soon:
I need to go to the Viking museum in Oslo. For some reason I’ve never been there. It seems like everyone I know has at some point been taken there on school trips, but my class never went, as far as I know anyway. And I want to see some real Viking artefacts and some real longships.
I also need to go to Trondheim; more importantly travel a bit around the Trondheims fjord. I’ve been to Trondheim, the city, once, many years ago, but I’ve never been around the Trondheims fjord. I feel that one of the things lacking in my novel are more physical details from the nature surrounding my characters, and I think this would be easier to describe if I go there and actually see it for myself. Ideally I’d be able to find two places where I can envision Borghildr’s father’s farm in Steinkjer, and her husband’s farm at Örland.
That’s the studying thing I’ll be doing this summer.
Next weekend I’m off to Strömstad in Sweden to celebrate Midsummer, which supposedly is very big in Sweden, but I’ve never been there for Midsummer before so it should be interesting.
The weekend after that it’s the annual fair at Flisa called Solör Mart’n, and if the weather is good, this should, as always, be a huge party.
The weekend after that (we’ve now come up to the weekend of 6 – 8 July) I am together with lots of my friends having our annual camping trip into the forest of Finnskogen. Tents, beer, mosquitoes, midnight swimming, BBQ…
On Tuesday 10th of July I’m going to Oslo for the Metallica concert.
By mid July I expect to be making my trip to the area around Trondheim.
On the 26th of July I’m heading to Denmark and Germany for a couple of weeks. Those who’ve been reading this blog know that this is also an annual thing.
I am still considering whether or not I’ll be travelling to England by mid August to hand in my final dissertation, or if I’ll just send it to the university by mail.
The last weekend of August I’m going to the island Håøya outside Tønsberg for a long weekend.
These are all the things that I can pretty much specify with dates, some other things that I’ve been thinking about:
I want to take up horse riding again, eventually; this is something I might be doing during the next 2 – 3 months.
I’ve lately become somewhat curious about golf, and I’m thinking that I’d like to do one of those introductory courses that are offered at golf clubs around Norway. So when I can find one not too far from where I live I guess I might be doing that as well.
I’m this week becoming a member of the local gym again. It’s been quite a while since I’ve been a member of a gym, and with my back now troubling me it just seems like a good idea.
And I guess this is pretty much it, what I’ve got planned for the next 2 – 3 months. I’ve got more plans after that, but I’ll get back to those in another posting on this blog when they’ve become a bit more fixed.
First of all, where I’m going to live, in the long run, I’ve got absolutely no idea. But for now I’ll stay put in Solör for another couple of months, at least. The flat in my parents’ basement is a quite nice flat, and the rent that we’ve agreed upon isn’t that expensive compared to other places, so I don’t see why I should be heading out searching for something else before I know where I want to live.
And I guess where I’m going to live depends a bit on what I’ll be doing. I am really curious to see what happens with my novel, and keeping my fingers crossed and hoping that even if I don’t win the competition, that the publisher might still want “The Battle” and the other books of the Viking series that I’ve promised to write. So if I end up being a full time writer this means that I can pretty much live anywhere I want. If that doesn’t happen it probably means that I will eventually start to work in a more regular job again, but as I’ve still got about 1 ½ year left on my redundancy, I don’t think I want to start working again till early next year. I still want to spend some time, full time, working on my writing.
My immediate plans for WHAT I’ll be doing next though are…
First of all I’ll have to finish my final dissertation for the MA. I need to rewrite parts of the 16000 words of my novel that I’m handing in as “the piece”, and I need to finish the 4000 words commentary on the piece. But I need to do some more research before I do this. As the story is set in the Viking Age in the area around Trondheim in mid Norway, there are basically two things I need to do pretty soon:
I need to go to the Viking museum in Oslo. For some reason I’ve never been there. It seems like everyone I know has at some point been taken there on school trips, but my class never went, as far as I know anyway. And I want to see some real Viking artefacts and some real longships.
I also need to go to Trondheim; more importantly travel a bit around the Trondheims fjord. I’ve been to Trondheim, the city, once, many years ago, but I’ve never been around the Trondheims fjord. I feel that one of the things lacking in my novel are more physical details from the nature surrounding my characters, and I think this would be easier to describe if I go there and actually see it for myself. Ideally I’d be able to find two places where I can envision Borghildr’s father’s farm in Steinkjer, and her husband’s farm at Örland.
That’s the studying thing I’ll be doing this summer.
Next weekend I’m off to Strömstad in Sweden to celebrate Midsummer, which supposedly is very big in Sweden, but I’ve never been there for Midsummer before so it should be interesting.
The weekend after that it’s the annual fair at Flisa called Solör Mart’n, and if the weather is good, this should, as always, be a huge party.
The weekend after that (we’ve now come up to the weekend of 6 – 8 July) I am together with lots of my friends having our annual camping trip into the forest of Finnskogen. Tents, beer, mosquitoes, midnight swimming, BBQ…
On Tuesday 10th of July I’m going to Oslo for the Metallica concert.
By mid July I expect to be making my trip to the area around Trondheim.
On the 26th of July I’m heading to Denmark and Germany for a couple of weeks. Those who’ve been reading this blog know that this is also an annual thing.
I am still considering whether or not I’ll be travelling to England by mid August to hand in my final dissertation, or if I’ll just send it to the university by mail.
The last weekend of August I’m going to the island Håøya outside Tønsberg for a long weekend.
These are all the things that I can pretty much specify with dates, some other things that I’ve been thinking about:
I want to take up horse riding again, eventually; this is something I might be doing during the next 2 – 3 months.
I’ve lately become somewhat curious about golf, and I’m thinking that I’d like to do one of those introductory courses that are offered at golf clubs around Norway. So when I can find one not too far from where I live I guess I might be doing that as well.
I’m this week becoming a member of the local gym again. It’s been quite a while since I’ve been a member of a gym, and with my back now troubling me it just seems like a good idea.
And I guess this is pretty much it, what I’ve got planned for the next 2 – 3 months. I’ve got more plans after that, but I’ll get back to those in another posting on this blog when they’ve become a bit more fixed.
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