Beyond the page

Other practices

The novels are one part of it. There is also music, poetry and the hours in the gym that keep the writing steady.

I

Music

Composing and playing

Music is the second language of the writing. I compose and play — pieces that often find their way into the mood of a chapter, and into the scoring of the immersive audiobook.

II

Poetry

Short poems

Between the novels there are short poems: quick, compressed pieces written in the margins of long days.

III

Training

Fitness as discipline

Four to seven days a week — most often after work, with one or two early mornings thrown in. It keeps the writing hours honest: the same discipline, applied to a different kind of endurance.

In pictures

Life around the writing

Cecilia Tibell resting in a deck chair in the sunCecilia Tibell with a friend on a summer eveningBlack and white photo of Cecilia Tibell with two friends