tuesday morning muse

The world is a scary place right now. Banks toppling left and right. And my own bank not out of the woods yet. The stockmarket crashing again, where is it going to end? As I know nothing about money it is difficult to oversee for someone like me. I guess we can only wait and hope for the best.

Back to books. I am reading a very interresting book for the study and for my own pain management at the moment. In dutch it is called, de pijn de baas, by Frits Winter. It has a translation as well. I have included a pick of the american edition. As I suffer from chronic pain myself and I want to help others with chronic pain deal with it in my practice this is really an invaluable book. It is written by someone who shows understanding for the pain, he really gives you that feeling. And he really comes up with methods that are worthwhile and doable even if you have a lot of pain. He takes us serious, but at the same time urges to take action and not be a victim. That is the kind of approach that I want to advocate as well and there are a lot of usefull tips and excersises in the book.

The writing urge is flowing as well. But what to write about, can I do it with all the homework and preparation work for the practice, dare I take time out from that for creative writing. And if I do, what? I would like to do something in the paranormal romantic genre, but so much has been done there already. How do you come up with something new and fresh. I was thinking about something, don't know if it has been done. It would have a lot of humor in it as well. A [prob] human therapist who helps vampires, weres etc cope with their feelings. Just a tought, I might do some work on it, I might not.