Hi everyone. Not sure there are a lot of you still following this space, as it’s been kind of dormant and my blogging efforts, sporadic as they are, have largely moved over to Fearless Creativity! at this point. Moreover, this whole blog will likely be replaced soon by a dedicated page for the upcoming Cliffjump! Manifesto – though I’ll keep the archived content available, ’cause that’s just the right thing to do.

However, since this was the venue for my Music Success In Nine Weeks contest blogs, I thought it would be a good place to announce that… umm… I seem to have come up a winner! (One of a few actually, as it seems like Ariel was overcome by some combination of generosity and indecisiveness… not that i’m complaining! I feel like I’m in good company there – some great work by all the other winners). Read the rest of this entry »

Hey everybody, just a very quick note to say, Happy New Year!

It’s nearly 2am here in Berlin and things are gradually slowing down, might be able to consider sleep soon.

As outlined in my previous couple of posts, I am preparing for a very big year in 2010, with some challenging and personally important projects underway – and I’m looking forward to sharing them as they unfold!

Thanks for your attention, support, comments, and so on…I hope it has been a good year for you and that the next will be even better, more fulfilling, fascinating and fun!

more soon…

- tobias

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I suspect this is no way to go about writing a book. No, let’s take that one step further: I am absolutely certain that by any normal measure of such things, it’s an insane way to attempt such a thing. Books are written in private, right? You toil away for months or more likely years on end, researching, scribbling out draft after draft… mountains of paper pile up, you rewrite and edit, rewrite and edit some more, all alone (darning his socks in the night when there’s nobody there!)… and at the end of it, somehow, is a finished thing, which finally you can unveil to the world – which for some reason is supposed to care. Yes, the final product is public, but the actual writing of books is not a performance art, right?